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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- 152. People (Volk)
- 153. Perception (Wahrnehmung)
- 154. Phenomenology (Phänomenologie)
- 155. Place (Ort/Ortschaft)
- 156. Playing Forth (Zuspiel)
- 157. Poetry (Dichtung)
- 158. Poiêsis
- 159. Polemos
- 160. Possibility (Möglichkeit)
- 161. Power (Macht)
- 162. Presencing (Anwesen)
- 163. Prevailing (Walten)
- 164. Principle (Satz)
- 165. Proximally and For the Most Part (Zunächst und zumeist)
- 166. Publicness (Öffentlichkeit)
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
159. - Polemos
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- 152. People (Volk)
- 153. Perception (Wahrnehmung)
- 154. Phenomenology (Phänomenologie)
- 155. Place (Ort/Ortschaft)
- 156. Playing Forth (Zuspiel)
- 157. Poetry (Dichtung)
- 158. Poiêsis
- 159. Polemos
- 160. Possibility (Möglichkeit)
- 161. Power (Macht)
- 162. Presencing (Anwesen)
- 163. Prevailing (Walten)
- 164. Principle (Satz)
- 165. Proximally and For the Most Part (Zunächst und zumeist)
- 166. Publicness (Öffentlichkeit)
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Polemos (greek “war”) is conflict in the sense of differentiating activity – an ongoing, unfolding dynamic in a specific situation as historically given. Heidegger employs the word polemos to articulate a new vocabulary to express the relationship between Dasein and being in the hermeneutical construal of a world; polemos, as conflictual, situated, and temporal, is intended to replace the Platonic idea, as static, transcendent, and eternal, as what gives meaning to both entities and the world in which entities make sense.
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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon , pp. 592 - 594Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021