Translators' Foreword
THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY
Summer Semester 1933
Introduction: The Fundamental Question of Philosophy and the Fundamental Happening of Our History
Main Part: The Fundamental Question and Metaphysics: Preparation
for a Confrontation with Hegel
Chapter One. The Development, Transformation, and Christianization
of Traditional Metaphysics
Chapter Two. The System of Modern Metaphysics and the First of Its
Primary Determining Grounds: The Mathematical
Chapter Three. Determination by Christianity and the Concept of
Mathematical-Methodological Grounding in the Metaphysical Systems
of Modernity
Chapter Four. Hegel: The Completion of Metaphysics as
Theo-logic
Conclusion
ON THE ESSENCE OF TRUTH
Winter Semester 1933-1934
Introduction: The Question of Essence as Insidious and Unavoidable
Part One. Truth and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Allegory
of the Cave in Plato's Republic
Chapter One. The Four Stages of the Happening of Truth
Chapter Two. The Idea of the Good and Unconcealment
Chapter Three. The Question of the Essence of Untruth
Part Two. An Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus With Regard to
the Question of the Essence of Untruth
Chapter One. Preliminary Considerations on the Greek Concept of
Knowledge
Chapter Two. Theaetetus's Answers to the Question of the Essence of
Knowledge and their Rejection
Chapter Three. The Question of the Possibility of
Appendix I
Notes and drafts for the lecture course of Summer Semester 1933
Appendix II
Notes and drafts for the lecture course of Winter Semester
1933-1934
Editor's Afterword
German-English Glossary
Lectures given at the rise of National Socialism
Gregory Fried is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. He is author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics and editor (with Richard Polt) of A Companion to Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics.
Richard Polt is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Xavier University. He is author of The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and Heidegger: An Introduction.
"Fried and Polt's translation of Martin Heidegger's Being and Truth is a well-crafted and careful rendering of an important and demanding volume of the Complete Works." Andrew Mitchell, Emory University
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