Engaging Heidegger

by Richard M. Capobianco

One of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger was primarily concerned with the ‘question of Being.’ However, recent scholarship has tended to marginalize the importance of the name of Being in his thought. Through a focused reading of Heidegger's texts, and especially his late and often overlooked Four Seminars (1966-1973), Richard Capobianco counters this trend by redirecting attention to the centrality of the name of Being in Heidegger's lifetime of thought. Capobianco gives special attention to Heidegger's resonant terms Ereignis and Lichtung and reads them as saying and showing the very same fundamental phenomenon named ‘Being itself ’. Written in a clear and approachable manner, the essays in Engaging Heidegger examine Heidegger's thought in view of ancient Greek, medieval, and Eastern thinking, and they draw out the deeply humane character of his ‘meditative thinking.’

Genres: Philosophy

192 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 2010

Reviews

[Edward Moran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great discussion of ereignis and homelessness. My only beef is that this philosopher compulsively draws a distinction between "ontic anxiety" and "ontological anxiety.". I see heidegger making a distinction between fear and anxiety but capobiancos nitpicking distinction between different types of anxiety could be dropped with an improvement to the book.