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.’

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Engaging Heidegger by Richard Capobianco

Acknowledgments

Foreword by William J. Richardson

Introduction

I
The Fate of Being

II
Ereignis: (Only) Another Name for Being Itself

III
The Turn Toward Home

IV
From Angst to Astonishment

V
Lichtung: The Early Lighting

VI
Plato's Light and the Phenomenon of the Clearing

VII
Building: Centering, Decentering, Recentering

VIII
Limit and Transgression

Afterword

Index

By Richard Capobianco
Foreword by William J. Richardson