The uses and abuses of Aristotle's Rhetoric in Heidegger's fundamental ontology

the lecture course, summer, 1924

pp. 315-333

in: Babette Babich (ed), From phenomenology to thought, errancy, and desire, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

Somehow it would not be quite right to provide a merely scholarly paper, as this one is largely intended to be, for this volume in honor of Father William J. Richardson. Somehow my paper ought to have not just existenzial but existenziell content and ought to concern itself not just with what we think but also with who we are. The reason is Bill Richardson himself. I remember first meeting Bill at a conference on hermeneutics at Williams College many many years ago. I had returned from five years of doctoral studies in Heidelberg and he was, of course, well-known there for his "Bahnbrechendes Heidegger-Buch", but in Bill's case knowing his written work, however magnificent it surely is, is, I found out, entirely secondary to knowing him. For I saw immediately that he had experienced, perhaps as no one I had met, the demand placed on each of us by the Zurückschlagen der Philosophie in die Existenz, the repercussion of philosophy in one's own existence (see SZ 38); for Bill philosophy must count in the way one leads one's life "there" in the world, with others.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin

Aristoteles