Aristotle's Metaphysics Θ 1–3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. xiii, 203. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. With bibliographical references.

Translated from the German by Walter Brogan and Peter Warnek.

Martin Heidegger's reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. First published in 1981 by Klostermann as volume 33 of Heidegger's collected works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1931. His careful translation and probing commentary on the first three chapters of Book IX of Metaphysics show the close correlation between his phenomenological interpretation of the Greeks (especially of Aristotle) and his critique of metaphysics.

A significant contribution to contemporary scholarship on Aristotle, particularly the understanding of potentiality in Aristotle's thought.