Table of Contents

Philosophy as Phenomenological Ontology – Heidegger’s Early View of History – Time and History in Being and Time – History as Repetition – World History, Historiography and Historicity – Authentic and Inauthentic Historiography – Philosophy as History – The Place of the Presocratics in Heidegger’s Thought – The Anaximander Fragment – Heidegger’s 1926 Lecture on Anaximander – The Departure of the Destiny of Being – Ἀρχή as Ordering (Verfügung) – Ordering as τὸ Ἄπειρον – The Earliest Name for Being: τὸ Χρεών – Being as Getting-Over Disorder – Τὸ Χρεών and the History of Being – Heraclitus: Physis and the Logos – The Φύσις Fragments (16, 123, 54, 8, 51, 64, 66, 30, 124, 93) – The Λόγος Fragments (50, 45, 72, 43, 108, 78, 41, 115, 112) – Being and Thinking in Parmenides – Ἀλήθεια - the Goddess of the Parmenidean Poem, Fragment 1 – At the Crossroads – Fragments 2 and 6 – Being and Thinking – Fragments 3 and 6 – Moira – Fragments 3 and 8 – The Presocratics and the History of Being – Heidegger’s Attempt to Overcome Metaphysics – From the First Beginning to the New Beginning

About the Author

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz is Professor at Lazarski University in Warsaw and Zayed University in Dubai. He received a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has taught at a number of universities, including the Anglo-American University of Prague and Texas State University in San Marcos.