Martin Heidegger's «Parmenides»

This is the whole transcript, in English, of a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg during the winter semester of 1942-1943, following the path of Heidegger's profound encounter with Nietzsche and his return to the Greek thinkers before Socrates. It is Heidegger's preliminary response or answer to the "Problem of Socrates", the deepest and most fundamental problem facing man as man. Included here for the first time is a vital essay by Leo Strauss on Heideggerian Existentialism that traces the full trajectory of Heidegger's thought from Being & Time to his last thoughts which tend to embrace a dialogue with the spirit of the East. These are difficult but rewarding texts for those who are able to bring the efforts necessary to think them through. All the thinkers in question here (Nietzsche-Heidegger-Parmenides-Strauss-Plato) are essential to the recovery of the permanent problem of philosophy & the polis, and the resurrection of the "question of Being".