Heidegger's Way of Being

by Richard M. Capobianco

In Heidegger's Way of Being , the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger , Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things. Drawing upon a wide variety of texts, many of which have been previously untranslated, Capobianco illuminates the overarching importance of Being as radiant manifestation - "the truth of Being" - and how Heidegger also named and elucidated this fundamental phenomenon as physis (Nature), Aletheia , the primordial Logos , and as Ereignis , Lichtung , and Es gibt . Heidegger's Way of Being brings back into full view the originality and distinctiveness of Heidegger's thought and offers an emphatic rejoinder to certain more recent readings, and particularly those that propose a reduction of Being to "sense" or "meaning" and maintain that the core matter is human meaning-making. Capobianco's vivid and often poetic reflections serve to evoke for readers the very experience of Being - or as he prefers to name it, the Being-way - and to invite us to pause and meditate on the manner of our human way in relation to the Being-way.

Genres: Philosophy

136 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2014

Reviews

[Lia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This interpretation is directly, explicitly against Thomas Sheehan’s(who seems to reduce H’s project to making sense, and not Being itself) which I’m very fond of, but I’m inspired by this perspective anyway.

I never used to understand H’s later poetic works, this essay helps me get a sense of what Heidegger was doing with the Greeks, Hölderlin, nature (physus), the moment, The glance, and what all that have to do with Being.

I might reread this later, right now I feel encouraged to tackle some of Heidegger’s later works.

[Pedro]

li os primeiros capitulos, não lembro quais