Subject: RE: To Edward Moore, Doctor Eldred, or whoever else may know about
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:55:29 +0100


Gary

Helen S Lang, Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties (SUNY Press,
1992) might be useful. She discusses Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas,
Buridan and Duns Scotus. It's a book Laurence Hemming suggested to me a
while back, which I've only just got round to looking at. I think she has
some other work on similar issues.

Of Heidegger on Aristotle, you presumably know the essays and lecture
courses translated into English (GA19 and GA33 being the most important),
but there are several only in German, and a piece which might be harder to
find -
"Phaenomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristotles (Anzeige der
hermeneutischen Situation)", Dilthey-Jahrbuch fuer Philosophie und
Geschichte der Geisteswissenschaften, Bd. 6, 1989. There is an English
translation by Michael Baur, "Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect
to Aristotle: Indication of the Hermeneutic Situation", in Man and World,
Vol 25, 1992. I found the Dilthey-Jahrbuch difficult to find, but there is a
good French-German edition, Interpretations Phenomenologiques d'Aristote,
Mauvezin: Trans-Europ-Repress, 1992.

I'd agree with Michael's suggestion that the Physics and the Metaphysics
were key, but i'd stress more how important the Nicomachean Ethics is.
Reading GA19 along with Being and Time is very interesting in seeing how
many notions develop from Heidegger's reading of this text. Kisiel's Genesis
of B&T should be useful here, and more generally on the reading of
Aristotle. The reading of Aristotle's Rhetoric in the previous semester's
course (to be GA18) is, according to Kisiel, central in understanding the
attitude to politics pre B&T.

Finally, i could mention my own forthcoming piece which begins with a
discussion of GA19 - "The Place of Geometry: Heidegger’s Mathematical
Excursus on Aristotle", The Heythrop Journal, Vol XLII No 3, July 2001.

Stuart


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> To Whom It May Concern,
> In a recent and expensive fit of insanity, I bought a number of volumes of
> translations of the commentators on Aristotle. It was on sale, I couldn't
> resist. Now, what I need to know is, for someone primarily interested in
> Heidegger, which authors and what books are most relevant? Right now I am
> looking at something by pseudo-'Simplicius' on DE ANIMA that may be
> fascinating. The translator of one of Philoponus' commentaries on DE ANIMA
> has been immensely helpful on clarifying the meaning and
> distinction of the
> passive and active mind, something that has always bugged me. But there is
> also Alexander of Aphrodesias, Themistius, Ammonius, etc., and on things I
> don't know much about, Physics, Generation and Corruption, etc.
>
> ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED!
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