Martin Heidegger: Phenomenological Interpretation of Aristotle

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Abstract

[In Russian]

The article offers an analysis of two central texts in which
Heidegger presents his phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s
philosophy. They are: the essay Phenomenological Interpretations
with Respect to Aristotle (which is famous as Natorp-Bericht) and
the essay Vom Wesen und Begriff der Φύσις. Aristoteles, Physik B,1.
Heidegger reads Aristotle’s philosophy as the end and fulfillment
of Greek thought. So, his work on Aristotle plays an important
role in the genesis of his thought and has a formative influence on
his unique understanding of phenomenology. Heidegger not only
reads Aristotle as a phenomenological thinker but also derives
his own unique sense of phenomenology from his dialog with
Aristotle. The 1922 essay, titled Phenomenological Interpretations
with Respect to Aristotle begins with explanation of philosophy
as a hermeneutic phenomenology. As in his Introduction to Being
and Time, Heidegger speaks in this essay of the need for any
ontologically fundamental approach to begin with a destruction
of the history of philosophy. Heidegger understands this
deconstructive reading as a movement between destruction and
retrieval.