Heidegger and Parmenides
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2026
352 pages
979-8-7651-6087-9 (ISBN)
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This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger's quest to bring about the end of philosophy according to its own beginning.
While the significance of Plato and Aristotle to Martin Heidegger's philosophical development in the 1920s and 1930s is well documented, the role of Parmenides remains relatively obscure. From Heidegger's thinking prior to Being and Time and after it, toward his thought of The Event, Parmenides is a constant presence within Heidegger's 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.
While the significance of Plato and Aristotle to Martin Heidegger's philosophical development in the 1920s and 1930s is well documented, the role of Parmenides remains relatively obscure. From Heidegger's thinking prior to Being and Time and after it, toward his thought of The Event, Parmenides is a constant presence within Heidegger's 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 the director of the Knapp Foundation and an honorary professor in Lancaster University's Philosophy, Politics and Religion Department. He has published a number of books and translations, including Heidegger's Atheism, Postmodernity's Transcending, and Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism. He edited and co-translated Ernst Jünger's 1932 text The Worker: Dominion and Form.
Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of several edited volumes, including Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History and Heidegger and Classical Thought, and The Essence of History.
Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of several edited volumes, including Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History and Heidegger and Classical Thought, and The Essence of History.
Content
Introduction, Laurence Hemming (University of London, UK) and Aaron Turner (University of London, UK)
Part I. Early Engagements with Parmenides
1. Heidegger's Parmenides, Laurence Hemming (University of London, UK)
2. Heidegger's Initial Interpretation of Parmenides: An 'Excursus' in the 1922 Lectures on Aristotelian Texts, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
3. No Evil Fate: Heidegger's Parmenides and the Phenomenology of Excess, Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University, USA)
4. Seyn as Difference and Seyn as Anfang: Parmenides' Hén and Heidegger's Seyn, Yuqi Zhang (Lancaster University, UK)
Part II. Parmenides Toward the Beiträge
5. Parmenides in Freiburg: Varieties of the Question of Being, Panagiotis Thanassas (University of Athens, Greece)
6. Der Abbruch und Anfang des Philosophierens: Heidegger's 'Turn' to Ground, Aaron Turner (University of London, UK)
7. The Echo of Parmenides and the Grounding Question of Metaphysics, Lasha Kharazi (Georgian-American University, Tblisi, Georgia)
8. Thinking and Being: Heidegger's 1935 Reading of Parmenides and Sophocles, Charles Bambach (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
9. Tò Gàr Autò: Heidegger on Identity in Parmenides B3, Jussi Backman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
10. Heidegger's Reading of Parmenides in the context of Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), Daniela Vallega-Neu (University of Oregon, USA)
Part II. Parmenides Beyond the Beiträge
11. Heidegger's Parmenides: On Truth, Being and Thinking in the Didactic Poem, W. Julian Korab-Karmowicz (Zayed University, Dubai)
12. Etymology and Metaphor: Aletheia in Heidegger's 1942/43 Parmenides Lectures, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
13. For This Impossible, Andrew Haas (Oxford, UK)
Appendix. Principal Discussions of Parmenides in the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe in Chronological Order
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
Part I. Early Engagements with Parmenides
1. Heidegger's Parmenides, Laurence Hemming (University of London, UK)
2. Heidegger's Initial Interpretation of Parmenides: An 'Excursus' in the 1922 Lectures on Aristotelian Texts, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
3. No Evil Fate: Heidegger's Parmenides and the Phenomenology of Excess, Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University, USA)
4. Seyn as Difference and Seyn as Anfang: Parmenides' Hén and Heidegger's Seyn, Yuqi Zhang (Lancaster University, UK)
Part II. Parmenides Toward the Beiträge
5. Parmenides in Freiburg: Varieties of the Question of Being, Panagiotis Thanassas (University of Athens, Greece)
6. Der Abbruch und Anfang des Philosophierens: Heidegger's 'Turn' to Ground, Aaron Turner (University of London, UK)
7. The Echo of Parmenides and the Grounding Question of Metaphysics, Lasha Kharazi (Georgian-American University, Tblisi, Georgia)
8. Thinking and Being: Heidegger's 1935 Reading of Parmenides and Sophocles, Charles Bambach (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
9. Tò Gàr Autò: Heidegger on Identity in Parmenides B3, Jussi Backman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
10. Heidegger's Reading of Parmenides in the context of Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), Daniela Vallega-Neu (University of Oregon, USA)
Part II. Parmenides Beyond the Beiträge
11. Heidegger's Parmenides: On Truth, Being and Thinking in the Didactic Poem, W. Julian Korab-Karmowicz (Zayed University, Dubai)
12. Etymology and Metaphor: Aletheia in Heidegger's 1942/43 Parmenides Lectures, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
13. For This Impossible, Andrew Haas (Oxford, UK)
Appendix. Principal Discussions of Parmenides in the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe in Chronological Order
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
