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Theory and History of Ontology

by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: raul.corazzon[at]formalontology.it

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Table of Contemporary Ontologists Ontology. Table of Ontologists (click on the image to see the PDF file)

A Selected Bibliography on the History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology

 

Index of the Section: "The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought"

Martin Heidegger on the History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ONTOTHEOLOGY

  1. Maître Eckhart à Paris. Une critique médiévale de l'ontothéologie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1984.
    Les Questions parisiennes n° 1 et n° 2.
    Études, textes et traductions par Emilie Zum Brunn, Zénon Kaluza, Alain de Libera, Paul Vignaux, Edouard Wéber.

     

  2. Saint Thomas et l'onto-théologie. Revue Thomiste 95 2002.

     

  3. Aubenque Pierre. La question de l'ontothéologie chez Aristotle et Heidegger. In La question de Dieu selon Aristote et Hegel. Edited by Konick Thomas de and Planty-Bonjour Guy. Paris: Press Universitaires de France 2005. pp. 259-283

     

  4. Barash Jefffrey Andrew. Heidegger's ontological "Destruction" of Western intellectual traditions. In Reading Heidegger from the start: essays in his earliest thought. Edited by Kisiel Theodore and Van Buren John. Albany: State University of New York Press 1994. pp. 111-122

     

  5. Bernasconi Robert. The question of language in Heidegger's History of Being. London: Macmillan 1985.

     

  6. Bernasconi Robert. Repetition and tradition: Heidegger's destructuring of the distinction between essence and existence in Basic Problems of Phenomenology . In Reading Heidegger from the start: essays in his earliest thought. Edited by Kisiel Theodore and Van Buren John. Albany: State University of New York Press 1994. pp. 123-136

     

  7. Berti Enrico, "La Metafisica di Aristotele: 'onto-teologia' o 'filosofia prima''?," Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 85: 265-282 (1993).
    Reprinted in: Adriano Bausola, Giovanni Reale (eds.) - Aristotele: perché la metafisica. Studi su alcuni concetti chiave della "Filosofia prima" aristotelica e sulla storia dei suoi influssi - Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 1994, pp. 117-144.

     

  8. Boulnois Olivier, "Quand commence l'ontothéologie? Aristote, Thomas d'Aquin et Duns Scot," Revue Thomiste 95: 85-108 (1995).

     

  9. Boulnois Olivier, "Heidegger, l'ontothéologie et les structures médiévales de la métaphysique," Quaestio.The Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics 2: 379-406 (2001).

     

  10. Brogan Walter. The place of Aristotle in the development of Heidegger's phenomenology. In Reading Heidegger from the start: essays in his earliest thought. Edited by Kisiel Theodore and Van Buren John. Albany: State University of New York Press 1994. pp. 213-230

     

  11. Brogan Walter. Heidegger and Aristotle. The twofoldness of Being. Albany: State University of New York Press 2005.

     

  12. Caputo John D., "The problem of Being in Heidegger and the Scholastics," Thomist 41: 62-91 (1977).

     

  13. Caputo John D. Heidegger and Aquinas: An essay in overcoming metaphysics. New York: Fordham University Press 1982.

     

  14. Chiereghin Franco, "L'inizio greco dell'Europa e la questione della Romanitas. Il cammino di Heidegger verso un altro inizio," Verifiche 22: 95-122 (1993).

     

  15. Courtine Jean-François. La critique de l'ontothéologie I: Aristote-Hegel. In Extase de la raison. Essais sur Schelling. Paris: Galilée 1990. pp. 263-289

     

  16. Courtine Jean-François. La critique de l'ontothéologie II: Le renversement de l'argument ontologique au seuil de la philosophie positive. In Extase de la raision. Essais sur Schelling. Paris: Galilée 1990. pp. 291-311

     

  17. Courtine Jean-François, "Heidegger et Thomas d'Aquin," Quaestio.The Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics 1: 213-233 (2001).

     

  18. Courtine Jean-François. La critique heideggérienne de l' Analogia entis. In Les catégories de l'être. Études de philosophie ancienne et médiévale. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 2003. pp. 213-239

     

  19. Courtine Jean-François. Inventio analogiae. Métaphysique et ontothéologie. Paris: Vrin 2005.

     

  20. Esposito Costantino, "Heidegger, Suárez e la storia dell'ontologia," Quaestio.The Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics 1: 407-430 (2001).

     

  21. Frede Dorothea. The question of Being: Heidegger's project. In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger. Edited by Guignon Charles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. pp. 42-69
    Second revised edition of the book 2006.

     

  22. Gadamer Hans-Georg, "Heidegger et l'histoire de la philosophie," Cahiers de l'Herne: 169-176 (1983).

     

  23. Gourinat Michel, "La querelle de l'ontothéologie. L'interprétation de la théologie médiévale par Heidegger," Cahiers de Recherces Médiévales 2: 87-93 (1996).

     

  24. Guignon Charles. The history of Being. In A Companion to Heidegger. Edited by Dreyfus Hubert and Wrathall Mark. Malden: Blackwell Publishers 2005. pp. 392-406

     

  25. Hatab Lawrence J., "Heidegger and myth: a loop in the History of Being," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22: 45-64 (1991).
    "The basic aim of Heidegger's thought is often stated in the following way: to uncover the meaning of Being, in its history, beginning with the first thinkers in Greece. Western history, we arc told, begins with the philosophical question What are beings?, the question concerning beings as such, beings as a whole. Although this view of history is, of course, appropriate for Heidegger's enterprise, it is a limited view because of a restricted historical sense that I submit even Heidegger does not intend. Before the advent of philosophy in Greece, a fully constituted world was in place, a world disclosed through myth and poetry. Furthermore, there was an historical relation between Greek myth and philosophy, regardless of whether this relation is seen as an evolutionary development, a devolutionary decline or a contest between different modes of disclosure. Consequently one might ask: What role does pre-philosophical myth play in the "history of Being"?
    Moreover, since the history of philosophy, for Heidegger, is at once a disclosure of Being and a concealing of that which "grants" disclosure by withdrawing itself (and the history of this concealment includes the great Presocratic thinkers) then one might further ask: Since philosophy to a certain extent displaced myth in Greek history, was there any connection between that displacement and concealment? That is to say, did pre-philosophical myth express a kind of openness that philosophy closed off? Put another way: Was Greek myth in any sense a prefiguration of Heidegger's alternative to philosophy, namely poetical thinking, that which seeks an openness to what is concealed in the disclosure of Being? Finally then: In what sense can Heidegger's later thought be called mythical?
    My paper will explore these questions in the following way. Part One will examine myth in relation to Heidegger's thought by selecting certain Heideggerian themes and showing how Greek myth presents a pre-philosophical expression of these themes. Part Two will examine Heidegger's thought in relation to myth by first focusing on references to mythical disclosure in Heidegger's early thought, and then sketching the ways in which Heidegger's later thought itself approached a mythical form. In general, by relating Heidegger's thought and myth, I want to suggest a broader scope and somewhat looping shape for the history of Being, because of certain pre-philosophical echoes in Heidegger's post-philosophical thought."

     

  26. Henrich Dieter. Der ontologische Gottesbeweis. Sein Problem und seine Geschichte in der Neuzeit. Tübingen: Mohr 1960.
    Translated in Italian.

     

  27. Inwood Michael. A Heidegger dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 1999.

     

  28. Jaran François, "Heidegger et la constitution onto-théologique de la métaphysique cartésienne," Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien 19: 65-80 (2003).

     

  29. Jaran François, "L'onto-théologie dans l'oeuvre de Martin Heidegger. Récit d'une confrontation avec la pensée Occidentale," Philosophie 91: 37-62 (2006).
    "F. Jaran examine la thèse de la constitution onto-théologique de la métaphysique, qui s'est transformée ces dernières années en un outil exégétique que les historiens de la philosophie n'hésitent plus à reprendre, fût-ce en le critiquant. Il s'attache à en retracer l'élaboration silencieuse dans les textes du début des années 1920, offrant ainsi un éclairage nouveau à la " métaphysique du Dasein " que Heidegger déploie immédiatement après la publication d'Être et temps."

     

  30. Kockelmans Joseph J. 'Der Brauch' als der älteste Name für das Sein des Seienden: Heidegger über den Spruch des Anaximander. In Philosophie und Poesie. Band 2. Otto Pöggeler zum 60. Geburtstag. Edited by Gethmann-Siefert Annemarie. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1988. pp. 77-103

     

  31. Laffoucrière Odette. Le destin de la pensée et "la mort de Dieu" selon Heidegger. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff 1968.
    "Le travail de Mademoiselle Laffoucrière, Le destin de la pensée et la mort de Dieu se distingue par un exposé clair et pertinent de ma pensée, Il écarte des malentendus nombreux et répandus. Du même coup, il fournit une bonne introduction à la droite intelligence de l'interrogation sur l'essence de la métaphysique.
    Je recommande donc vivement la publication de ce travail; à bien des égards, il peut servir de commentaire aux traductions de mon oeuvre jusqu'alors parues en France. Martin Heidegger, 9 novembre 1964." p. IV.

     

  32. Lefebvre René, "L'image onto-théologique de la Métaphysique d'Aristote," Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 8: 123-173 (1990).

     

  33. Mabille Bernard. Hegel, Heidegger et la métaphysique. Recherches pour une constitution. Paris: Vrin 2004.

     

  34. Magnus Bernd. Heidegger's metahistory of philosophy. Amor fati, Being and Truth. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1970.

     

  35. Magnus Bernd, "Heidegger's metahistory of philosophy revisited," Monist 64: 445-466 (1981).
    Reprinted in: Hubert Dreyfus, Mark Wrathall (eds.) - Truth, realism and the history of Being - Heidegger reexamined - vol. II - New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. 139-160

     

  36. Maly Kenneth, "Translating Heidegger's works into English: the history and the possibility," Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien 16: 115-138 (2000).

     

  37. Marion Jean-Luc, "Descartes et l'onto-théologie," Bulletin de la Société Française de Philosophie 76: 117-158 (1982).
    Discussion pp. 159-171.
    English translation: Descartes and onto-theology - in: Phillip Blond (ed.) - Post-secular philosophy - London, Routledge, 1998. pp. 67-106.

     

  38. Marion Jean-Luc, "Du pareil au même. Ou: comment Heidegger permet de refaire l' "histoire de la philosophie"," Cahiers de l'Herne: 177-181 (1983).

     

  39. Marion Jean-Luc, "Saint Thomas d'Aquin et l'onto-théo-logie," Revue Thomiste 95: 31-66 (1995).

     

  40. Marion Jean-Luc. Heidegger and Descartes. In Critical Heidegger. Edited by Macann Christopher. New York: Routledge 1996. pp. 67-96

     

  41. McNeill William, "Metaphysics, fundamental ontology, metontology 1925-1935," Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien 8: 63-79 (1992).

     

  42. Narbonne Jean-Marc. Remarques sur une interprétation heideggerienne de l'Un plotinien. In La métaphysique: son histoire, sa critique, ses enjeux. Paris: Vrin 2000. pp. 127-138
    Actes du XXVIIe Congrès de l'Association de Philosophie de Langue Française (ASPLF), août 1998

     

  43. Narbonne Jean-Marc. La métaphysique de Plotin, suivi de Henôsis et Ereignis: Rémarques sur une interprétation heideggérienne de l'Un plotinien. Paris: Vrin 2001.
    Second augmented edition

     

  44. Narbonne Jean-Marc. Hénologie, ontologie et Ereignis (Plotin - Proclus - Heidegger). Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2001.

     

  45. Narbonne Jean-Marc, "Heidegger et le néoplatonisme," Quaestio.The Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics 1: 55-82 (2001).

     

  46. Noreña Carlos G., "Heidegger on Suárez: the 1927 Marburg Lectures," International Philosophical Quarterly 23: 407-424 (1983).
    "Heidegger's thought on Suarez has been studied for the most part by scholastic philosophers with a particular doctrinal intent, in the context of Heidegger's views on the history of ontology, and on the narrow basis of a few passing remarks in some of Heidegger's works.(a) The 1975 publication of Heidegger's (Summer Semester, 1927) lectures on Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie, and their recent translation into English by Professor Hofstadter, make possible a better documented and more conclusive analysis of the subject. (b) Unfortunately, other relevant sources still remain unpublished, such as Heidegger's lectures and seminars on the history of philosophy from St. Thomas to Kant, medieval mysticism, St. Augustine, and Renaissance scholasticism. All of them, however, give a clear indication of Brentano's influence upon Heidegger's early thought and demonstrate an interest in medieval philosophy which one seldom finds among contemporary thinkers. In this essay we intend (1) to summarize Heidegger's views on medieval scholastic philosophy in general and those of Suarez in particular, and (2) attempt to retrieve from the Marburg lectures what Heidegger left unsaid and unthought on the scholastic distinction between essence and existence."

    (a) Some scholars have argued that Heidegger's criticism of medieval ontology was fully justified when directed against Suarez, but radically unfair to St. Thomas. To this group belong: G. Siewerth, Das Schicksal der Metaphysik von Thomas zu Heidegger (Einsideln, 1959); R. Echauri, Heidegger y la Metafisica Tomista (Buenos Aires, 1970); B. Rioux, L'étre et la verité chez Heidegger et Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Montreal-Paris, 1963); C. Fabro, Participation et causalité selon S. Thomas d'Aquin (Louvain, 1961); J. P. Doyle, "Heidegger and Scholastic Metaphysics", The Modern Schoolrnan, 49 (1972), 201-221; 0. N. Derisi, "Approximaciones y diferencias entre la fenomenologia existencialista de Martin Heidegger y la ontologia de Santo Tomás," Sapientia, 22 (1967), 185-192; W. R. Korn. "La question de l'être chez Martin Heidegger," Revue Thomiste, 71 (1971), 33-58.
    More favorable to Suarez were H. Meyer, Heidegger und Thomas von Aquin (Munich. 1968); and M. Schneider. "Der angebliche Essentialismus des Suarez." Wissenschaft und Weisheit, 24 (1961), 40-68. Finally, there are those philosophers who think that both St. Thomas and Suarez fully deserve Heidegger's criticism. See. e.g., H. Siegfried, Die Wahrheit und Metaphysik bei Suarez (Bonn, 1967). Heidegger's references to Suarez can be found in Seitz und Zeit (Gesamtausgabe, ed. by F. W. von Herrmann, vol. 2. Frankfurt am Main, 1977), 30; Die Frage nach der Ding (Tübingen. 1962), 77; and Nietzsche (Pfüllingen, 1961), 11.418.

    (b) The lectures Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie were published in 1975 as vol. 24 of the Gesamtausgabe. They were reviewed by M. E. Zimmermann in the International Philosophical Quarterly, 17 (1977). 235-237, and in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 39 (1979), 537-550. Professor A. Hofstadter's excellent translation was published in 1981 by Indiana University Press under the title Basic Problems of Phenomenology.

     

  47. Okrent Mark B., "The truth of Being and the history of philosophy," Monist 64: 500-517 (1981).
    Reprinted in: Hubert Dreyfus, Mark Wrathall (eds.) - Truth, realism and the history of Being - Heidegger reexamined - vol. II - New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. 161-176

     

  48. Peacocke John. Heidegger and the problem of onto-theology. In Post-secular philosophy: between philosophy and theology. Edited by Blond Phillip. New York: Routledge 1998. pp. 177-194

     

  49. Prouvost Géry, "Apophatisme et ontothéologie," Revue Thomiste 95: 67-84 (1995).

     

  50. Robert Jean-Dominique, "La critique de l'onto-théologie chez Heidegger," Revue Philosophique de Louvain 78: 533-552 (1980).

     

  51. Rosemann Philipp, "Heidegger's transcendental history," Journal of the History of Philosophy 40: 501-523 (2001).

     

  52. Sadler Ted. Heidegger and Aristotle. The question of Being. London: Athlone Press 1996.

     

  53. Schmucker Josef. Die Ontotheologie des vorkritischen Kant. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1980.

     

  54. Schüssler Ingeborg. Le Sophiste de Platon dans l'interprétation de Heidegger. In Heidegger 1919-1929. De l'herméneutique de la facticité à la métaphysique du Dasein. Edited by Courtine Jean-François. Paris: Vrin 1996. pp. 91-111
    Actes du colloque organisé par Jean-François Marquet (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, novembre 1994)

     

  55. Souche-Dagues Denise. Du Logos chez Heidegger. Grenoble: Éditions Jérôme Million 1999.

     

  56. Starr David E. Entity and existence. An ontological investigation of Aristotle and Heidegger. New York: Burt Franklin & Co. Inc. 1975.

     

  57. Taminiaux Jacques, "The interpretation of Greek philosophy in Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 19: 3-14 (1988).

     

  58. Tanzer Mark Basil, "Heidegger on Being's oldest name: "to chreón"," Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien 15: 81-96 (1999).

     

  59. Thomson Iain, "Ontotheology? Understanding Heidegger's Destruktion of metaphysics," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 8: 297-327 (2000).
    Reprinted in: Hubert Dreyfus, Mark Wrathall (eds.) - Truth, realism and the history of Being - Heidegger reexamined - vol. II - New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. 107-138 and in: Iain Thomson - Heidegger on ontotheology. Technology and the politics of education as Chapter 1.

     

  60. Thomson Iain. Heidegger on ontotheology. Technology and the politics of education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005.

     

  61. Tilliette Xavier, "L'argument ontologique et l'histoire de l'ontothéologie," Archives de Philosophie 25: 128-149 (1962).

     

  62. Vick George, "Heidegger's linguistic rehabilitation of Parmenides' "Being"," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 8 (1971).
    Reprinted with revisions in: Heidegger and modern philosophy. Critical essays - edited by Michael Murray - New Haven - Yale University Press, 1978 pp. 203-221

     

  63. Volpi Franco, "Heidegger et la romanité philosophique," Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale: 5-18 (2001).

     

  64. Volpi Franco. La romanité philosophique et son vocabulaire. In Philosopher en français. Langue de la philosophie et langue nationale. Edited by Mattei Jean-François. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 2001. pp. 487-499

     

  65. Westphal Merold, "Aquinas and onto-theology," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80: 173-191 (2006).

 

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