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Heraclitus Seminar Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Martin Heidegger Eugen Fink Charles H Seibert 9780810110670 Books

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Heraclitus Seminar Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Martin Heidegger Eugen Fink Charles H Seibert 9780810110670 Books

This actually is an interesting if somewhat inconclusive volume. It is something like a transcript of a seminar on the pre-Socratic thinker, the seminar being conducted in the 1966-67 academic year by Eugen Fink and Martin Heidegger. The seminar actually seems to be led by Professor Fink, and there are occasional comments and questions from other participants besides those from Heidegger.

The theme of the seminar is an attempted interpretation of some of the Heraclitus fragments available--about forty fragments are quoted in Greek, translated, and compared in unpacking certain themes. Fink's hermeneutic starting point is in the concepts of the "one" (hen) and the "many" (panta). Heidegger's focus, characteristically, is more on "truth" (aletheia) or, as he would interpret the Greek word, the "clearing" and on logos, which crudely and misleadingly could be translated as the "word". The two professors seem to know one another well and respectfully, and in fact Fink was a follower of Heidegger. But their points of view seem to differ considerably, and there is a certain inconclusiveness in the exchanges as a result. Also it apparently is the case that the seminar was expected to continue, which did not occur after the semester in which it first was offered.

Since I was interested primarily in what Heidegger was thinking about Heraclitus, I found Fink's leading and dominating the discussion somewhat disappointing. At the same time, there are some good exchanges and some powerful hints at Heidegger's perspective. The one below is a highly characteristic Heideggerian comment just at the end of the book.

"The dark is, to be sure, without light, but cleared. Our concern is to experience unconcealment as clearing. That is what is unthought in what is thought in the whole history of thought. In Hegel, the need consisted in the satisfaction of thought. For us, on the contrary, the plight of what is unthought in what is thought reigns." (p. 162)

Not to be facetious, his concern with "the dark" that opens up or clears, making room for the light, actually sheds considerable light on Heidegger's vision of the truth ("unconcealment") as it relates to himself and Heraclitus. One must work through numerous pieces of Heidegger's opus to glean insights into his core thinking, and this volume provides some useful and perhaps more spontaneous hints that add to more focused work elsewhere.


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Heraclitus Seminar Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Martin Heidegger Eugen Fink Charles H Seibert 9780810110670 Books Reviews

It's a good book to read. Some topics are emphasized. Love to see Heidegger used Greek words to convey and trace back.
Martin Heidegger's special intellectual relationship with the Presocratics is often discussed as if the German philosopher was some sort of romantic originalist or nostalgist. But Heidegger always insisted that the point about going back to Heraclitus, Parmenides and rest was not to recover the specific contents of their thought (or, worse, to wallow in their supposed primitive "purity"), but to recapture the spirit of their efforts to "think the question of Being." You won't find a better presentation of this - or a more candid glimpse of Heidegger as a working philosopher - than in this text. It presents the record of a seminar on Heraclitus conducted by Heidegger and the German scholar Eugen Fink in the late 1960s. Heidegger's discussion of specific Heraclitian texts makes for difficult reading but is, generally speaking, quite lucid. And the dialog with Fink and student participants is eye-opening. (Heidegger's pronouncements are by no means always taken as Gospel!) Most important, in spite of their rather recondite subject matter, these seminar records wonderfully illuminate Heidegger's own philosophical development in the last two decades of his life. Although this book does require familiarity with Heidegger's work and somewhat unique philosophical terminology, as well as familiarity with the history of philosophy generally, I wouldn't call it a text "for specialists only." Unless, of course, all readers of philosophy are specialists! And it does provide a welcome corrective to current "New Age" tendencies to view Heraclitus and the other Presocratics as authors of quasi-religious wisdom manuals. No dumbing-down here; just a tough confrontation with difficult material!
Heraclitus is immortal, Heidegger is inimitable, Fink is the moving force of the seminar and Charles Seibert has produced a very readable translation. That the book is full of misspellings in English and--horror of horrors--typos in the Greek too, inevitably casts a shadow on the quality of Mr Seibert's work and oversight (a certain John Cody is implicated for the Greek in the foreword). I cannot check the German original (I do not know the language) but the typos in plethora I can well spot. I am still searching the Oxford Dictionary for the words "emenate" (sic) and "emenation" (sic). They only seem to exist for Mr Seibert. The sun is treated alternately as a "he" (so is the Greek usage) and as a "she". The seminar's or Mr Seibert's idea. Elsewhere we encounter the word "boarder" (sic) and "boardering" (sic). Is it a translation in English of one of those manufactured words that Heidegger relished or is it a misspelling of "border"?
This actually is an interesting if somewhat inconclusive volume. It is something like a transcript of a seminar on the pre-Socratic thinker, the seminar being conducted in the 1966-67 academic year by Eugen Fink and Martin Heidegger. The seminar actually seems to be led by Professor Fink, and there are occasional comments and questions from other participants besides those from Heidegger.

The theme of the seminar is an attempted interpretation of some of the Heraclitus fragments available--about forty fragments are quoted in Greek, translated, and compared in unpacking certain themes. Fink's hermeneutic starting point is in the concepts of the "one" (hen) and the "many" (panta). Heidegger's focus, characteristically, is more on "truth" (aletheia) or, as he would interpret the Greek word, the "clearing" and on logos, which crudely and misleadingly could be translated as the "word". The two professors seem to know one another well and respectfully, and in fact Fink was a follower of Heidegger. But their points of view seem to differ considerably, and there is a certain inconclusiveness in the exchanges as a result. Also it apparently is the case that the seminar was expected to continue, which did not occur after the semester in which it first was offered.

Since I was interested primarily in what Heidegger was thinking about Heraclitus, I found Fink's leading and dominating the discussion somewhat disappointing. At the same time, there are some good exchanges and some powerful hints at Heidegger's perspective. The one below is a highly characteristic Heideggerian comment just at the end of the book.

"The dark is, to be sure, without light, but cleared. Our concern is to experience unconcealment as clearing. That is what is unthought in what is thought in the whole history of thought. In Hegel, the need consisted in the satisfaction of thought. For us, on the contrary, the plight of what is unthought in what is thought reigns." (p. 162)

Not to be facetious, his concern with "the dark" that opens up or clears, making room for the light, actually sheds considerable light on Heidegger's vision of the truth ("unconcealment") as it relates to himself and Heraclitus. One must work through numerous pieces of Heidegger's opus to glean insights into his core thinking, and this volume provides some useful and perhaps more spontaneous hints that add to more focused work elsewhere.