Heidegger on Plato's Cave

The cave itself

1926 - Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy. pp. 84-87 (GA 22, 102-7).

1927 - The Basic Problems of Phenomenology pp. 283-286 (GA 24, 400-5).

1928 - The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic pp. 116-117 (GA 26).

1931-32 - The Essence of Truth (2004) pp. 17-63 (GA 34).

1934-35 - Being and Truth pp. 101-142 (GA 36/37).

1942 - "Platos's Doctrine of Truth" Pathmarks pp. 155-182 (GA 9, pp. 203-38). This was a lecture on April 29, 1941; also published in GA 80.2.

Related comments on Plato, but not about the cave per se

1942-43 - Parmenides pp. 132-93 (GA 54).

1936-37 - "Plato's Republic" Nietzsche I pp. 171-87 (GA 6.1). About the table.

Comments by others

Stanley Rosen Platonic Productions (2014).

Mark Wrathall "Heidegger on Plato, Truth, and Unconcealment: The 1931–32 Lecture on The Essence of Truth".

María del Carmen Paredes "Amicus Plato magis amica veritas: Reading Heidegger in Plato’s Cave" in Heidegger and Plato (2005).

Francisco J. Gonzalez "From the 1931–32 and 1933–34 Courses on the Essence of Truth to “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth”: Heidegger’s Transformation of Plato into Platonism Through the Interpretation of the Sun and Cave Analogies of the Republic" in Plato and Heidegger (2009).

Richard Capobianco "Plato’s Light and the Phenomenon of the Clearing" in Engaging Heidegger (2010) p. 104.

Graeme Nicholson "The Parable of the Cave" in Heidegger on Truth (2019) p. 100.

Gregory Fried "Back to the Cave: A Platonic Rejoinder to Heideggerian Postmodernism" in Heidegger and the Greeks (2006) p. 157.



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