This book makes a phenomenological engagement with two seminal texts in the founding of Western philosophy: Plato's cave allegory (Πολιτεία 514a–520a) and Plato's Theaetetus dialogue. It unfolds as a lecture, which means the whole discourse is very easy to follow and Heidegger is at his most lucid and straightforward here.
His main thesis is that we need to understand how appearance and “presenc-ing” but also concealment are inextricably linked to Being in the originary Greek conception of things, rather than appearance's being a kind of concession or failure to engage with the real things in themselves (as though their truth lay somehow behind the veil of mere appearance and phenomenon).
The Bloomsbury publishing version of this book was obviously OCR'ed from manuscripts of the translation, since there are numerous typos of ancient Greek (lambda is frequently confused for gamma, and vice versa). This won't be distracting for the non literate in Greek, since they'll probably be skipping over the Greek words but it's irritating for anyone who notices the mistakes. ( )

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