Heidegger and German Platonism - The Shadows of Marburg

Examining Heidegger's thought in relation to Platonism, this book opens a dialogue between Heidegger and German Platonism that illuminates issues around aesthetics, ethics, political philosophy, and ontology. It will be of interest to scholars of ancient and European philosophy, classicists, intellectual historians, and political theorists.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Ideenlehre as methodology in Marburg Neo-Kantian Platonism; 2. Three problems in Heidegger's Plato; 3. Philological interlude: Friedländer's platonic discovery; 4. On the meaning of the dialogical form of Plato's writings; 5. Plato and the poets and Plato as poet; 6. Philosophy, politics and the ironies of Plato's republic; 7. The forms between transcendence and immanence: on the elusiveness of being; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston University. He has published widely on ancient Greek philosophy and post-Kantian European philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Antoine Pageau-St Hilaire
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.01.2026
• EAN: 9781009564441
• ISBN: 978-1-009-56444-1
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism