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- ISBN 9781803744735
- Weight: 584g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics. This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist approaches to non-discursive thinking, the other beginning that has hitherto remained dormant within the history of thought is established. The author re-thinks Heidegger’s attribution of the collapse of truth (alētheia) to Plato by recovering the dialogues’ deep topography, myths and inspired expression. The re-interpretation of Plato is then linked to Neoplatonism, where significant parallels with Heidegger emerge. The book thoroughly and consistently explores the non-discursive thinking of Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus with Heidegger’s poetic thinking.
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.
