We will read some fragments of Parmenides and the second choral ode of Sophocles’ Antigone along with excerpts from Heidegger’s lecture series, Introduction to Metaphysics.

Heidegger engages with Parmenides (esp. the one line of fragment 3) as the misunderstood foundation of Western philosophy, which is the object of his criticism in the book. He offers a new interpretation of Parmenides and a reading of Sophocles ode as providing a genuine alternative paradigms for thinking and poetry beyond our current dilemmas.

We will discuss Heidegger’s interpretation of Parmenides and the Antigone and we will also try to arrive at our own interpretation of these texts.