Heidegger's Being

"""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"