Heraclitus Seminar
Martin Heidegger
Northwestern University Press
In 1966-67 Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink conducted an extraordinary seminar on the fragments of Heraclitus. <i>Heraclitus Seminar</i>
 records those conversations, documenting the imaginative and 
experimental character of the multiplicity of interpretations offered 
and providing an invaluable portrait of Heidegger involved in active 
discussion and explication.<br><br>Heidegger's remarks in this seminar 
illuminate his interpretations not only of pre-Socratic philosophy, but 
also of figures such as Hegel and Holderllin. At the same time, 
Heidegger clarifies many late developments in his own understanding of 
truth, Being, and understanding. Heidegger and Fink, both deeply rooted 
in the Freiburg phenomenological tradition, offer two competing 
approaches to the phenomenological reading of the ancient text-a kind of
 reading that, as Fink says, is "not so much concerned with the 
philological problematic ... as with advancing into the matter itself, 
that is, toward the matter that must have stood before Heraclitus's 
spiritual view."