Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle

<div> <p><b>A bold new conception of Heidegger's project of <i>Destruktion</i> as a method of interpreting history</b><br> <br> For Martin Heidegger our inherited traditions provide the concepts through which we make our world intelligible. Concepts we can also oppose disrupt and even exceed. First however if Western philosophy is our inheritance we must submit it to <i>Destruktion</i>-starting with Aristotle. <i>Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle:</i> <i>On How to Read the Tradition</i> presents a new conception of Heidegger's destruction as a way of reading.<br> <br> Situated between Nietzschean genealogy and Derridean deconstruction this method uncovers in Aristotle the most vital originating articulations of the Western tradition and gives us the means to confront it. Sean D. Kirkland argues this is not a rejection of the past but a sophisticated and indeed timely hermeneutic tool-a complex illuminating and powerful method for interpreting historical texts at our present moment. Acknowledging the historical Heidegger as a politically compromised and still divisive figure Kirkland demonstrates that Heideggerian destruction is a method of interpreting history that enables us to reorient and indeed transform its own most troubling legacies.</p> </div>