Exploring largely overlooked texts, Richard Capobianco invites readers on a meditative journey through the philosophical, religious, and spiritual dimensions of Heidegger's thought post-Being and Time. The work encourages reflection and contemplation, offering a gentle exploration that promotes a deeper understanding of the mysteries surrounding existence and the essence of Being. Through this approach, readers can engage with profound ideas while experiencing a sense of freedom and upliftment.
This book sheds light on the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger's lifelong attention to the question of Being.
Richard Capobianco makes the case that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things.
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.’