Heraclitus

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. S. Montgomery Ewegen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Trinity College, Hartford, USA. His research and teaching are focused on Ancient philosophy, 20th Century Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and their intersections. Julia Goesser Assaiante is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German in the Language and Culture Studies Department at Trinity College, Hartford, USA. Her research interests concentrate on eighteenth and early twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with an emphasis on poetic language, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and currents of anti-Enlightenment thought.

Translator's Foreword

The Inception of Occidental Thinking: Heraclitus
Preliminary concerns: Philosophy as the authentic thinking of the to-be-thought. On the inception of "Occidental" thinking

Introduction: Preliminary Consideration of the Inceptual and the Word
1. Two stories concerning Heraclitus as introduction to his word
2. The word in the inception of thinking

Main Part: The Truth of Being

Logic: Heraclitus's Doctrine of the Logos
Prologue

First Section: Logic: Its Name and Its Matter

Second Section: The Primordial and the Paths to Access

Third Section: Retreat into the Originary Region of Logic

Supplement
Editor's afterword
German to English Glossary
English to German Glossary