Heidegger and German Platonism

By Antoine Pageau-St Hilaire

Heidegger criticized Plato, alleging that all metaphysics is Platonism and that metaphysics is a misunderstanding and falsification of the question of Being. Is it possible to defend Platonism against this Heideggerian accusation? Three thinkers among Heidegger's first generation of students answered this question affirmatively, and appropriated Platonic philosophy in order to respond to Heidegger's critique and to criticize his thought more broadly. Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire examines the Platonic critiques of Heidegger found in the works of Leo Strauss, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Gerhard Kr ger in the context from which they emerged, namely the intellectual constellation of Marburg as shaped by Marburg neo-Kantian Platonism and the philological innovations of Paul Friedl nder. His rich study illuminates neglected aspects of the reception of Plato in the German tradition, and presents a new narrative of developments in post-Heideggerian thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009564447
• ISBN13: 9781009564441
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"