Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding

by Richard Capobianco

Overview

In Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger’s thinking about Being.

As in his earlier books, Capobianco offers a meditative path through Heidegger’s thought. He illuminates major motifs that are overlooked or set aside by most contemporary readings of Heidegger, amplifying these motifs in an original, heartfelt, and eloquent way. The book also offers a series of reflections that bring Heidegger’s thinking into close proximity to other thinkers and poets, including Alfred North Whitehead, C.G. Jung, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Rumi.

Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is intended not only for dedicated students of Heidegger’s work but also for engaged general readers who wish to come to a deeper appreciation of his distinctive vision of Being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487544584
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	06/29/2022
Series:	New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	671,237
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Richard Capobianco is a professor of Philosophy and Meehan Humanities Scholar at Stonehill College. He is the author of Heidegger’s Way of Being and Engaging Heidegger.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Studies

1. Pindar’s "Gold" and Heraclitus’s "Kosmos" as Being Itself
2. In the Black Notebooks: The "Turn" Away from the Transcendental-Phenomenological Positioning of Being and Time to the Thinking of Being as Physis and Aletheia
3. Heidegger’s Manifold Thinking of Being: In Honor of Prof. William J. Richardson
4. Athena, Art, and Overcoming the Egoity of Our Age
5. Mythos, Being, and the Appropriation of a Religious Tradition
6. On Heidegger’s Heraclitus Lectures: In Nearness of a Process Metaphysics?
7. The Path through Heidegger’s Thought: Interview with FILOZOFIA

Part II: Translation

8. "Martin Heidegger’s Thinking and Japanese Philosophy" by Kōichi Tsujimura and "Reply in Appreciation" by Martin Heidegger

Part III: Reflections and Impressions

9. Heidegger and the Earliest Greeks
10. Heidegger, Phenomenology, and Metaphysics
11. Why "Phenomenology" Inevitably Slides toward Idealism/Subjectivism/Constructivism
12. Heidegger’s "Clearing" Is Not Identical with the Human Being
13. Heidegger, Max Müller, and Metaphysics: "Heidegger Remains a Metaphysician"
14. Heidegger, Plato, and "Light"
15. Hegel and the Inexhaustible Depth of "Things"
16. Facticity Only in the Light of Eternity
17. Another Suggestion on Thinking: Heidegger and Whitehead
18. Heidegger and C.G. Jung on Wholeness as the Telos of the Human Being
18. Heidegger and C.G. Jung on "Opposites"
20. Heidegger and Melville
21. Heidegger and a Robert Frost Poem
22. The Unspeakable Mystery of All Things
23. A "Hermetic Saying" and the Hermetic Tradition
24. Heidegger and Walt Whitman
25. Heidegger and the Limit of Language – and Rumi
26. Thomas Aquinas, "God," and the "Godhead of God"

Afterword

A Note on the Text and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Timothy Jussaume

"Richard Capobianco is a widely recognized expert on Heidegger and the scholarship in this text shows a deep and sophisticated understanding of Heidegger's work. The heart of Capobianco's project is to invite the reader to 'step back' from contemporary philosophy's elevation of the social, political, and epistemological, and return to the priority of metaphysics. Providing a creative, meditative expression of Heidegger's central insights, this book makes a significant contribution to the field of Heidegger studies."

Scott M. Campbell

"Those familiar with Richard Capobianco's work on Heidegger will recognize in this book his unique understanding of Being as the shining unfolding of things that is not dependent on the human being, a reading which endeavors to address what he takes to be the narcissism of the modern age's insistence on subjectivism. New in this volume, however, are original and illuminating interpretations of this reading of Being in relation to the Greek gods (especially Athena and Zeus), religious traditions, Heraclitus, Whitehead's process metaphysics, Japanese philosophy, Jung, Melville, Robert Frost, Rumi, Aquinas, and others, offering an engaging extension of Heidegger's thinking into new areas of philosophy and literature."

Elias Schwieler

"Richard Capobianco's Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding opens up heretofore unexplored perspectives on Heidegger's later thinking. Capobianco invites the reader to reflect on Heidegger's ways of Being through innovative scholarship that provides scholars and students of Heidegger with invaluable insights into Heidegger's later philosophy. This book is an essential addition to Heidegger scholarship by one of the most prominent scholars in Heidegger studies today."

George Kovacs

"This collection of reflections by Capobianco represents a unified, perceptive look into seminal ideas of Heidegger's lifelong attention to the question of Being, and suggests some thought-provoking attempts, philosophical ventures, to go beyond them, to think them through in a new way, to deepen and expand their understanding."

Rick Moody

"If literature is a thing of epiphanies, a thing of dynamism, change, and incremental, hard-won revelation, then Richard Capobianco's Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is not just an astute work of philosophy, it is also a dazzling collection of literary essays—essays in the old sense of the word, attempts, sallies, adventures, in the direction of how we might find contemporary relevance in Heidegger's late evocations of Being. Capobianco discovers Heidegger's candlelight flickering everywhere, shimmering forth widely in art and literature, and it's a measure of Capobianco's wisdom that he can convey this so well to us, in a fashion that startlingly dramatizes Heidegger's deepest questions. I very much admire this book."

Ian Alexander Moore

"Richard Capobianco's newest book is at once an invitation to and an exercise in thinking mindfully with Heidegger. It sheds light on numerous, often neglected aspects of Heidegger's way of Being, even as it remains open to Being's ultimate mystery. A gleaming achievement."

Richard Colledge

"Richard Capobianco has long championed an important re-reading of Heidegger's work, highlighting the enduring unity of his focus on the question of Being, and Heidegger's many names for it, and challenging more idealistic renderings of Heideggerian thought. In his new (third) book, Capobianco again provides searching expositions of Heidegger's texts, especially in relation to early Greek thought. But he also expands this to include pioneering dialogues with Whitehead and C.G. Jung, and literary figures such as Melville, Frost, Whitman, and Rumi."

Editorial Reviews

"Those familiar with Richard Capobianco's work on Heidegger will recognize in this book his unique understanding of Being as the shining unfolding of things that is not dependent on the human being, a reading which endeavors to address what he takes to be the narcissism of the modern age's insistence on subjectivism. New in this volume, however, are original and illuminating interpretations of this reading of Being in relation to the Greek gods (especially Athena and Zeus), religious traditions, Heraclitus, Whitehead's process metaphysics, Japanese philosophy, Jung, Melville, Robert Frost, Rumi, Aquinas, and others, offering an engaging extension of Heidegger's thinking into new areas of philosophy and literature."

—Scott M. Campbell, Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Nazareth College

"Richard Capobianco is a widely recognized expert on Heidegger and the scholarship in this text shows a deep and sophisticated understanding of Heidegger’s work. The heart of Capobianco’s project is to invite the reader to ‘step back’ from contemporary philosophy’s elevation of the social, political, and epistemological, and return to the priority of metaphysics. Providing a creative, meditative expression of Heidegger’s central insights, this book makes a significant contribution to the field of Heidegger studies."

—Timothy Jussaume, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Saint Leo University

"Richard Capobianco’s Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding opens up heretofore unexplored perspectives on Heidegger’s later thinking. Capobianco invites the reader to reflect on Heidegger’s ways of Being through innovative scholarship that provides scholars and students of Heidegger with invaluable insights into Heidegger’s later philosophy. This book is an essential addition to Heidegger scholarship by one of the most prominent scholars in Heidegger studies today."

—Elias Schwieler, Associate Professor of Education, Stockholm University

"This collection of reflections by Capobianco represents a unified, perceptive look into seminal ideas of Heidegger's lifelong attention to the question of Being, and suggests some thought-provoking attempts, philosophical ventures, to go beyond them, to think them through in a new way, to deepen and expand their understanding."

—George Kovacs, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Florida International University

"Richard Capobianco has long championed an important re-reading of Heidegger’s work, highlighting the enduring unity of his focus on the question of Being, and Heidegger’s many names for it, and challenging more idealistic renderings of Heideggerian thought. In his new (third) book, Capobianco again provides searching expositions of Heidegger’s texts, especially in relation to early Greek thought. But he also expands this to include pioneering dialogues with Whitehead and C.G. Jung, and literary figures such as Melville, Frost, Whitman, and Rumi."

—Richard Colledge, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University

"If literature is a thing of epiphanies, a thing of dynamism, change, and incremental, hard-won revelation, then Richard Capobianco’s Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is not just an astute work of philosophy, it is also a dazzling collection of literary essays—essays in the old sense of the word, attempts, sallies, adventures, in the direction of how we might find contemporary relevance in Heidegger’s late evocations of Being. Capobianco discovers Heidegger’s candlelight flickering everywhere, shimmering forth widely in art and literature, and it’s a measure of Capobianco’s wisdom that he can convey this so well to us, in a fashion that startlingly dramatizes Heidegger’s deepest questions. I very much admire this book."

—Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of North America

"Richard Capobianco's newest book is at once an invitation to and an exercise in thinking mindfully with Heidegger. It sheds light on numerous, often neglected aspects of Heidegger's way of Being, even as it remains open to Being's ultimate mystery. A gleaming achievement."

—Ian Alexander Moore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

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