Plato and Heidegger: a question of dialogue

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: What Is to Be Gained from a Confrontation Between Plato and Heidegger? -- Part One: Heidegger's Critical Reading of Plato in the 1920s -- 1. Dialectic, Ethics, and Dialogue -- Heidegger's Critique of Dialectic in the 1920s -- Ethics and Ontology -- Ethics in Plato's Sophist -- Heidegger and Dialogue -- Conclusion -- 2. Logos and Being -- The Tensions in Heidegger's Critique -- The Guiding Perspective of Λόγoς as Undermining the Ontic/Ontological Distinction -- Heidegger on Plato's Forms -- Being as Δύναμις -- Conclusion: The Relation Between Being and Λόγoς -- Part Two: Heidegger on Plato's Truth and Untruth in the 1930s and 1940s -- 3. From the 1931-32 and 1933-34 Courses on the Essence of Truth to "Plato's Doctrine of Truth": Heidegger's Transformation of Plato into Platonism Through the Interpretation of the Sun and Cave Analogies of the Republic -- The Courses on the Essence of Truth from WS 1931/32 and WS 1933/34 -- Plato's Truth in the Beiträge of 1936-38 -- Plato's Doctrine of Truth in 1940 -- The End of Truth: The 1964 Retraction -- Conclusion: The End of Truth? -- 4. The Dialogue That Could Have Been: Heidegger on the Theaetetus -- The Theaetetus Interpretation in Die Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie (SS 1926) -- The Interpretation of the Theaetetus in the Vom Wesen der Wahrheit Course of 1931-32 and 1933-34 -- Conclusion: Heidegger's Orthodoxy -- 5. The 1942 Interpretation of Λήθη in the Myth of Er (Republic Book 10) -- The Roman Versus the Greek Conception of Truth -- Saying Λήθη in the Myth of Er -- Purging the Myth of Er: The Ontologizing of Ethics and Politics -- The Greek Experience of the Open: A Saying That Points and Hints Versus the "Leap" -- Conclusion: Leaping Beyond Plato.

Introduction: What is to be gained from a confrontation between Plato and Heidegger? -- Heidegger's critical reading of Plato in the 1920s. Dialectic, ethics, and dialogue ; Logos and being -- Heidegger on Plato's truth and untruth in the 1930s and 1940s. From the 1931-32 and 1933-34 courses on the essence of truth to "Plato's doctrine of truth" : Heidegger's transformation of Plato into Platonism through the interpretation of the sun and cave analogies of the Republic ; The dialogue that could have been : Heidegger on the Theaetetus ; The 1942 interpretation of [lethe] in the myth of Er (Republic Book 10) -- Opportunities for a dialogue with Plato in the late Heidegger. Calculative thinking, meditative thinking, and the practice of dialogue ; Dialectic and phenomenology in "Zeit und Sein" : a pivotal chapter in Heidegger's confrontation with Plato