The Other Platonist Beginning

This book establishes an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger's history of metaphysics. The other Platonist beginning follows a revision of Heidegger's interpretation of Plato to retrieve Neoplatonist approaches to non-discursive thinking that have hitherto remained dormant within the history of thought.

Autorentext

Emile Alexandrov was awarded his PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Dr Alexandrov works on non-discursive thinking and overcoming metaphysics primarily in Ancient Greek and German philosophies, including the Islamic Golden Age and Japanese Buddhist philosophies. Dr Alexandrov is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen, Russia.

Inhalt

Contents: Why Heidegger and His Two Beginnings? - The Other Beginning: The Event - Hölderlin as the Futural Poet of the Other Beginning - Re- thinking Heidegger's Plato - The Unhypothetical First Principle - Heidegger's Interpretation of Neoplatonism - Plotinus' Metaphysics - Porphyry's Cave, Theurgy and Proclus' Poetry.