Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting

by Richard Velkley

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical questioning. For Heidegger and Strauss, the recovery of the original premises of philosophy cannot be separated from rethinking the very possibility of genuine philosophizing. Common views of the influence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621494X
• ISBN13: 9780226214948
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"