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Movement versus activity: Heidegger's 1922/23 seminar on Aristotle's ontology of life.

Authors :
Gonzalez, Francisco J.
Source :
British Journal for the History of Philosophy; May2019, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p615-634, 20p
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

The important role played by Aristotle in Martin Heidegger's path towards Being and Time during the 1920's is now well documented. Yet an important chapter of this story remains mostly unexplored: Heidegger's early attempt to develop an ontology of life in dialogue with Aristotle. This is because the early seminars in which Heidegger developed his important and highly original interpretation of Aristotle's De Anima remain unpublished (apart from one very inadequate transcript): one seminar from the summer of 1921 and one spanning the winter semester of 1922/23 and the summer semester of 1923. In the present paper, I reconstruct Heidegger's key interpretative moves in the latter seminar on the basis of a detailed handwritten transcript preserved among the papers of his student Helene Weiss held at Stanford University. What emerges is a dialogue between Aristotle and Heidegger that enables us better to understand and to question the thought of both philosophers on the phenomenon of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
ONTOLOGY
SEMINARS

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
09608788
Volume :
27
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
135889844
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1524369