Yale Press has put online the introduction and first chapter of Gregory Fried's book Heidegger's Polemos. This is a great book I've mentioned a lot since I picked it up this spring. His discussion was very influential in in my analysis of the role of a space or clearing for freedom in LDS theology. (I bring it up, as that series of posts here was one of my favorite blog posts as I thought I was actually saying something original in it, unlike most of what I post that is more comment on other people's readings or simply summarizing other people's thoughts) Anyway getting back to Fried, the first chapter is a discussion of the role of strife in Heraclitus and how that influences Heidegger. The notion of this sphere of strife in Heraclitus is fairly important, I feel, for how I read Heidegger but also how I read LDS theology. To quote Marcovich as quoted in the book:
The sphere is rather social than natural (physical). The division of the world into gods and men, into free men and slaves, etc., according to Greek ideas, was 'the foundation of all order'" (Fried, 25)
In either case, if you haven't picked up Fried, I'd strongly suggest doing so. I'd say it is my second favorite book on Heidegger after Sikka's, Forms of Transcendence
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