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Other Platonist Beginning

Heidegger and Neoplatonism

Other Platonist Beginning

Heidegger and Neoplatonism

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Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781803744735
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 29/07/2024
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm

This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics. This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist approaches to non-discursive thinking, the other beginning that has hitherto remained dormant within the history of thought is established. The author re-thinks Heidegger’s attribution of the collapse of truth (aletheia) to Plato by recovering the dialogues’ deep topography, myths and inspired expression. The re-interpretation of Plato is then linked to Neoplatonism, where significant parallels with Heidegger emerge. The book thoroughly and consistently explores the non-discursive thinking of Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus with Heidegger’s poetic thinking.

Contents: Why Heidegger and His Two Beginnings? – The Other Beginning: The Event – Hölderlin as the Futural Poet of the Other Beginning – Re- thinking Heidegger’s Plato – The Unhypothetical First Principle – Heidegger’s Interpretation of Neoplatonism – Plotinus’ Metaphysics – Porphyry’s Cave, Theurgy and Proclus’ Poetry.

Emile Alexandrov

Emile Alexandrov was awarded his PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Dr Alexandrov works on non-discursive thinking and overcoming metaphysics primarily in Ancient Greek and German philosophies, including the Islamic Golden Age and Japanese Buddhist philosophies. Dr Alexandrov is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen, Russia.