new Heidegger volume released

I’m less enthusiastic about the new volumes as time goes by, since maybe 80% of them are rehashes of things he’s said better elsewhere. That’s why I haven’t read any of them since 2009, and might continue the hiatus for awhile.

But for what it’s worth, they’ve just released the 1932 Summer Semester lecture course, an interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides. HERE.

I hold Heidegger partly responsible for the romanticization and to some extent overestimation of the pre-Socratics. Don’t get me wrong, I think many of the key themes of Western philosophy appear in the pre-Socratics as if in a well-written overture. But compare any one of them to Plato or Aristotle, and it’s not just a difference in voluminousness of remaining texts, but a vast difference in philosophical quality.