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Heidegger – Plato Bibliography

Major Engagements by Heidegger with Plato

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Heidegger, Martin, Gesamtausgabe (105 vols.), edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt a. M.: Klostermann, 1976– ) = (GAnn).

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• GA6     Nietzsche I–II (2 vols.), edited by Brigitte Schillbach (1996).  Edited by David Farrell Krell and translated by David Farrell Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi as Nietzsche (4 vols.).  San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1979–1985.

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• GA6.1    ‘Der Will zur Macht als Kunst’, Lectures Winter Semester Freiburg 1936/37, pp. 153–212.  ET vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art §§20–24.

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• GA6.2 ‘Der europäische Nihilismus’, pp. 199–203.  ET vol. 4, European Nihilism, pp. 167–172.

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• GA9    Wegmarken, edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann (1996 [1967]).  Translated and edited as Pathmarks by William McNeill.  New York NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

–    ‘Platons Lehre von der Wahrheit (1931/32, 1940)’, pp. 203–238.  Translated by Thomas Sheehan and William McNeill as ‘Plato’s Doctrine of Truth (1931/32, 1940)’, pp. 155–182.

 

• GA19    Platon: Sophistes, edited by Ingeborg Schüßler (1992).  Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer, as Plato’s Sophist.  Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.  Lectures Winter Semester Marburg (WS) 1924/25.

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• GA22    Die Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie, edited by Franz-Karl Blust (1993).  Translated by Richard Rojcewicz as Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy.  Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Lectures Summer Semester Marburg 1926

 –    ‘Die Philosophie Platos’, pp. 94–143: ET pp. 77–118.

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• GA34    Vom Wesen der Wahrheit: zu Platons Höhlengleichnis und Theätet, edited by Hermann Mörchen (1997 [1988]).  Translated by Ted Sadler as Martin Heidegger: The Essence of Truth.  London: Athlone (Continuum), 2002.  Lectures Winter Semester Freiburg 1932/32.

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• GA36/37    Sein und Wahrheit: 1. Die Grundfrage der Philosophie, 2. Vom Wesen der Wahrheit, edited by Hartmut Tietjen, 2001.  Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt as Being and Truth.  Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2010.

See esp. pp. 186–200; 231–250.  Lectures Winter Semester 1933/34.

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• GA83    Seminare: Platon – Aristoteles – Augustinus, edited by Mark Machalski (2012).

–    ‘Platon, Parmenides: Übungen im Wintersemester 1930/31’, pp. 25–37.

–    ‘Platons Phaidros: Übungen im Sommersemester 1932’, pp. 83–148.

 See also the transcripts of these seminars in the same volumes.

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Some Secondary Sources

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• Frank, Erich, ‘The Fundamental Opposition of Plato and Aristotle’, in American Journal of Philology, vol. 61 (1940), pp. 34–53.

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• Friedländer, Paul, Platon (3 vols.).  Seinswahrheit und Lebenswirklichkeit (vol. 1, 3rd edition).  Berlin: de Gruyter, 1964 (1928, 1954).  Translated by Hans Meyerhoff as Plato: An Introduction (2nd edition).  Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969 (1958).

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• Gonzalez, Francisco J., 

–A Question of Dialogue: Plato and Heidegger.  University Park PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2009.

–    ‘On the Way to “Sophia”: Heidegger on Plato’s Dialectic, Ethics, and “Sophist”’, in Research in Phenomenology, vol. 27 (1997), pp. 16–60.

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• Hyland, Drew

–    Questioning Plato: Continental Interpretations of Plato (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy).  Albany NY: SUNY, 2004.

–    ‘Heidegger’s Plato’, pp. 17–84.

 

• Hyland, Drew A. and John Panteleimon Manoussakis (eds.), Heidegger and the Greeks: Interpretive Essays.  Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.

 

–    Gregory Fried, ‘Back to the Cave: A Platonic Rejoinder to Heideggerian Postmodernism’, pp. 157–176.

–    John Sallis, ‘Plato’s Other Beginning’, pp. 178–190.

 

• Kristian and Pål Rykkja Gilbert (eds.), Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy, pp. 162–177.  Leiden: Brill, 2021.

–    Charlotta Weigelt, ‘An “Obscure” Phenomenology? Heidegger, Plato, and the Philosopher’s Struggle for the Truth of Appearance’, pp. 132–161.

–    Hans Ruin ‘A Strange Fate: Heidegger and the Greek Inheritance’, pp. 162–177.

 

• Mayer, Rupert, ‘Heidegger und Platon: Die Dialektik der wahren Aussage im “Sophistes” ’, in Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2008, vol. 8, pp. 147–167.

 

• O’Rourke, Fran,  ‘Plato’s Approach to Being in the Theaetetus and Sophist, and Heidegger’s attribution of Aristotelian influence’, in Diotima: Revue de recherche philosophique, vol. 31 (2003), pp. 47–58.

 

• Pageau-St. Hilaire, Antoine, Heidegger and German Platonism: The Shadows of Marburg.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

 

• Ralkowski, Mark A., Heidegger’s Platonism,  London: Continuum, 2009.

 

• Rosen, Stanley, The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger,  New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1993.

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• von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich and Paul Friedländer, eds. William M. Calder III and Bernhard Huss, trans. Caroline Buckler, ‘The Wilamowitz in Me’: 100 Letters between Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Paul Friedländer (1904-1931), Los Angeles CA: UCLA (Charles E. Young Research Library), 1999.