ABSTRACT
The lectures of the summer semester of 1924, “Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie,” represent an extraordinary opportunity for the historian of rhetoric. What is notable in the beginning lectures is Heidegger’s perspicacity in reading the Rhetoric as a mode of inquiry, as, indeed, giving us a life science, an account of our defining life capacities. Heidegger’s careful, even cautious working through of the key terms is vital to the innovatory moments in his account. Like Klaus Dockhorn, Heidegger sees rhetoric not as a tradition of teaching manuals, but as a formation, indeed, the second, alternate formation to philosophy in the classical period. If life, then motion, kinesis. If motion, then time. If the basic concern of life studies is movement, Sein-als-Bewegtsein, then the primary strategies of rhetoric must deal with time.
