This book showcases the contributions of esteemed scholars in Heideggerian studies, delving into the inquiry of the mystical essence inherent in Heidegger's thought.
Rather than confining "mystery" to the conventional realm of mysticism, separate from philosophy, this volume's original research investigates how the mystery of being is integral to philosophy itself, shaping its performative and transformative nature. The book's central inquiry asks whether this mystical element is essential to Heidegger's thought and how it relates to traditional notions of mysticism. At its core, however, it questions the very essence of philosophy-its transformative potential-engaging with numerous themes in Heidegger's work while remaining attuned to the centrality and significance of the mystery of being.
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The Mystery of Being: Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought is a collection of thoughtful and provocative essays that tackle an important dimension of Heidegger's path. Many scholars have previously addressed the mystical dimension in Heidegger's thought but the topic is discussed from new perspectives in this volume and a convincing case is made to reexamine Heidegger under the taxonomy of philosophical mysticism. At the heart of Heidegger's meditational-as opposed to computational-thinking, or what he called "inceptual thinking," is the notion of mystery understood as the revealing concealment by which the concealed is simultaneously hidden and manifest. The mystical element of Heidegger's poiesis undergirds his claim that the essential being of language, which originates in the silence of speaking the unspeakable, safeguarded especially by the poet, may be elicited from the assertion that saying is showing, but what is shown in that showing is the unshowable, for every unconcealment of truth is inescapably a concealment of untruth. The truth of beyng is beyond language but it is not possible for linguistic beings to leap over language to lay bare beyng divested of linguistic attire. The chapters of this book adeptly elucidate Heidegger's indebtedness to the mystical tradition in shaping his idea of thinking as a transformative event. Particularly relevant is his commitment to the hermeneutical principle of letting the veil appear as what veils. In consonance with mystics in various traditions, Heidegger grasped that lifting the veil, ostensibly to see the face laid bare, amounts to discerning that there is no way to see the face but through the veil of the face. The Mystery of Being is a welcome contribution that will benefit students of Heidegger, mysticism, and the interface of philosophy and religion. -- Elliot R. Wolfson, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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Erik Kuravsky is a researcher in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Transcendence in Heidegger's Early Thought: Toward Being as Event (2023). His research explores the potential for self-fulfillment in human life, examining the ethical, epistemic, and existential dimensions of an individual's ontological transformation. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, his work has been published in Research in Phenomenology, Religions, Sophia, Open Theology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Gatherings, and Circolo Rivista di Filosofia e Culture, as well as in various books on phenomenology and the intersections of philosophy and mysticism.
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University of Vienna, Austria
Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes (GA) cited in the book
Foreword: The Mystical Sense of Life
John D. Caputo (Syracuse University, USA)
Introduction. Reconsidering the 'Mystical Element'
Erik Kuravksy (University of Vienna, Austria)
Part I. The Trace of Mysticism in Heidegger's Thinking
1. In Search of the Divine God. Heidegger, the Transformative Art of Philosophy and Religion
Holger Zaborowski (University of Erfurt, Germany)
2. Heidegger's "Mystical" Vision of Being
Richard Capobianco (Stonehill College, USA)
3. The Mysticism of Heterothesis: Heidegger's Reading of Duns Scotus and Beyond
John Krummel (Hobart & William Smith Colleges, USA)
Part II. Hermeneutic Ontology as a Path to Retrieving Genuine Mysticism
4. Temporality, Clairvoyance, and the Mystical in Heidegger's Being and Time
Rajesh Sampath (Brandeis University, USA)
5. Stretching Hermeneutics: Being and Time and Scripture
Peter Costello (Providence College, USA)
6. Heidegger and the Sufi Mysticism of Ibn ?Arabi
Bharatwaj Iyer (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Part III. The Mystery as the Source of Mysticim: Stillness, Language, Thinking
7. Martin Heidegger and the Unspeakable: On the Source of Mysticism
Miles Groth (Wagner College, USA)
8. Wording Stillness
Krzysztof Ziarek (University at Buffalo, USA)
9. The Grammatical Riddle of Being: Heidegger's Polysemous Participles
Lee Braver (University of South Florida, USA)
Part IV. Engaging the Mystery: Agency, Attunement, Attention
10. Releasement as a Mode of Knowing: The Mystically Noetic Core of Human Agency in Heidegger and Meister Eckhart
Erik Kuravsky (University of Vienna, Austria)
11. The Path of Awakening a Fundamental Attunement
Jessica S. Elkayam (Sam Houston State University, USA)
12. The Question of Being as a Praxis of Mindfulness
Lawrence Berger (Marist College, USA)
Part V. On the Way to a Dwelling Place (Among the Mystery of Things)
13. "This - is the land - the Sunset washes -": Re-examining the Mystery of Place in Heidegger with Emily Dickinson
Axel Karamercan (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
14. Heidegger's Fourfold Causality: The Mystical Path to Dwelling
Brendan Mahoney (University at Albany, USA)
15. Heidegger and the Mystery of the Simple (Experiencing the Beynghistorical Word-thing)
Lasha Kharazi (Georgian-American University, Georgia)
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