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HEIDEGGER, Martin. The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus. Translated by Ted Sadler. New York: Continuum, 2002. xii + 252 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper $29.95-"More is accomplished by a proper treatment of little than by an inadequate treatment of much." This quotation from the Theaetetus (187e2; cited p. 109) applies to Heidegger's interpretation of a few passages of the dialogue itself (184-7) and the well-know allegory of the cave from Plato's Politeia (514-17) that accounts for the contents of the present volume. According to the translator, "The present text must count as one of Heidegger's most important works" (p. x).
Most of Heidegger's readings of early and classical Greek texts are unconventional by traditional philosophical and...