Heidegger and Aristotle The Twofoldness of Being

This book offers a study of the central texts in which Heidegger presents his phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s philosophy. Heidegger’s readings span the corpus of Aristotle’s philosophy, with particular emphasis on the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Rhetoric. I claim in the book that Heidegger has a sustained thematic focus and insight that govern his overall reading of Aristotle—namely, that Aristotle, while attempting to remain faithful to the Parmenidean dictum regarding the oneness and unity of being, nevertheless thinks being as twofold. It is this philosophical discovery that permits him, within the framework of the Greek understanding of being, to account for the centricity of motion in the meaning of being, what I call Aristotle’s kinetic ontology.