Heidegger and Parmenides

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This edited collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heideggers quest to bring about the end of philosophy according to its own beginning.
While the significance of Plato and Aristotle to Martin Heideggers philosophical development in the 1920s and 1930s is well documented, the role of Parmenides remains obscure. From Heideggers thinking prior to Being and Time and after it, toward his thought of The Event, Parmenides is a constant presence within Heideggers developing concern to overcome metaphysics, and so restore for thinking the original question of being. This book makes the case that, without Parmenides, philosophy could not be philosophy, and Heidegger could not be Heidegger.

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Laurence Hemming is an honorary professor in Lancaster Universitys Philosophy, Politics and Religion Department, and the Lancaster University Management School, UK. He is also is Director of the Knapp Foundation. He has published a number of books and translations, including Heideggers Atheism, Postmodernitys Transcending, and Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism. He edited and co-translated Ernst Jngers 1932 text The Worker: Dominion and Form.

Aaron Turner is a Research Associate in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is also Research Fellow of the Knapp Foundation. He is the editor of two volumes, Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History and Heidegger and the Classics.