The Thought of John Sallis: Phenomenology, Plato, Imagination

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411 Notes Introduction 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1968), 283. Chapter 1 1. John Sallis, Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1973). 2. Edmund Husserl,The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology , trans. David Carr (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1970). 3. Sallis, Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings, 21. 4. Martin Heidegger, Der Anfang des abendländischen Denkens (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1976), 55:113–14. 5. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (New York: Humanities, 1962), 254. 6. Ibid., 187. 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1986), 12. 8. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 70. 9. Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, 102. 10. Ibid., 139. 11. See J. G. Fichte, Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre, in Werke, ed. I. H. Fichte (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1971) 1:212–18, 248. 12. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 394. 13. Fichte, Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre, 1:225. Chapter 2 1. John Sallis,Delimitations: Phenomenology and the End of Metaphysics (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995). 2. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ed. Harold F. Brooks (London: Routledge, 1979). 412 N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 1 – 4 7 3. Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, in Kants Werke, ed. Raymond Schmidt (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1956), B 151. 4. Ouk emou alla tou logou akousantas homologein sophon estin hen panta einai. “Listening not to me but to logos it is wise to agree: one is all.” The Heraclitean fragment is found in The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd ed., ed. G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven , and M. Schofield (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 187. Translation mine. 5. See Plato’s Theaetetus, 210b. 6. This passage recalls the cave image in Plato’s Republic, which will be treated exhaustively in the following chapter. 7. Kenneth Maly, ed., The Path of Archaic Thinking: Unfolding the Work of John Sallis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), 243. 8. Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1960), 1; Plato, Sophist, 244a. 9. The Sophist will be treated in the chapter on Plato in Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues. 10. Here, it seems to me that this residue of Husserlian thought remains undeveloped in both Heidegger and Sallis. 11. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, 12. 12. Martin Heidegger, Zur Sache des Denkens (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1969), 63. 13. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, 250. 14. Martin Heidegger, Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1976), 24:436. 15. Ibid., 24:437. 16. The Greek is a quotation that is emphasized in the text: epi gēraos oudō. Sallis will point out that the phrase may mean moving from old age “to the threshold of death,” or in the Homeric sense of moving from old age and death into Hades. 17. Journal of Philosophy 81, no. 10 (October 1984): 594–601. 18. See Jacques Derrida, La dissémination (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1972), 31–32. 19. See Jacques Derrida, Marges de la philosophie (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit , 1972), 35–36. 20. Friedrich Nietzsche, Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1967), 6/2:293. References include the volume number and page number. 21. Derrida, Marges, 75. 22. From the poem “Patmos” by Friedrich Hölderlin, in Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, 1:379. Heidegger cites this poem in “Die Frage nach der Technik,” in Vortr äge und Aufsätze (Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1959), 36, 43; and in “Die Kehre,” in Die Technik und die Kehre (Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1962), 41. 23. See Plato’s Republic, 508e–509b. 24. Ibid., 525b2. 25. Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann , 1976), 54:140. 413 N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 7 – 7 9 26. T. S. Eliot, “East Coker,” in Four Quartets (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, 1971), 23—two Heraclitean quotations open the poems. 27. Four standard translations are: (1) “Die Seelen atmen Geruch ein im Hades,” Diels-Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (Zurich: Weidmann, 1968), 173; (2) “Souls smell in Hades,” John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (New York: Meridian Books, 1957), 136; (3) “Souls have the sense of smell in Hades,” Kathleen...