R. Capobianco, Engaging Heidegger

William Koch

pp. 231-236

in: Arnulf Deppermann (ed), Formulation, generalization, and abstraction in interaction, Human Studies 34 (2), 2011.

Abstract

Richard Capobianco’s book, Engaging Heidegger, is an example of the best type of scholarship in Heidegger studies. He offers eight careful studies that trace developments, changes, turns and returns in Heidegger’s thought as they relate to specific themes and topics. His perceptive eye for nuance and cautious, close and historical reading allows the author to avoid the deceptions inherent in large scale narratives about the development of any philosopher’s thought as well as the distortive projection of a single position onto a thought that twisted and turned its way through decades of critical self-reflection. In this way Capobianco places himself in the service of the burgeoning self-differentiating thought of one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin

Capobianco Richard