The 'Parmenides', a text both timely and untimely

Abstract

It is taken for granted that every edition of an eminent and well-known author must be met with reviews in proportion to the reverence inspired by the ‘event’ such an edition represents. In the case of Heidegger’s work, however, this ritual comes under suspicion because it is exactly Heidegger who casts doubt on most of those conciliatory ways in which the philosophical texts are publicly dealt with. The present paper seeks to demonstrate that not only the Parmenides as such, but the very tradition of interpreting Heidegger’s reflections as well, together make part of a broader and, at the same time, a more specific approach which, starting from Heidegger himself, has to cope with the highly problematic genesis of modern public attitude towards truth.