The Mystery of Being - Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought

This book showcases the contributions of esteemed scholars in Heideggerian studies, delving into the inquiry of the mystical essence inherent in Heidegger's thought.

List of contents

Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes (GA) cited in the book
Foreword. The Mystical Sense of Life
John D. Caputo
Introduction. Reconsidering the 'Mystical Element'
Erik Kuravksy
Part I. The Trace of Mysticism in Heidegger's Thinking
Chapter 1. In Search of the Divine God. Heidegger, the Transformative Art of Philosophy and Religion
Holger Zaborowski
Chapter 2. Heidegger's "Mystical" Vision of Being
Richard Capobianco
Chapter 3. The Mysticism of Heterothesis: Heidegger's Reading of Duns Scotus and Beyond
John Krummel
Part II. Hermeneutic Ontology as a Path to Retrieving Genuine Mysticism
Chapter 4. Temporality, Clairvoyance, and the Mystical in Heidegger's Being and Time
Rajesh Sampath
Chapter 5. Stretching Hermeneutics: Being and Time and Scripture
Peter Costello
Chapter 6. Heidegger and the Sufi Mysticism of Ibn ?Arabi
Bharatwaj Iyer
Part III. The Mystery as the Source of Mysticim: Stillness, Language, Thinking
Chapter 7. Miles Groth: Martin Heidegger and the Unspeakable: On the Source of Mysticism
Miles Groth
Chapter 8. Wording Stillness
Krzysztof Ziarek
Chapter 9. Lee Braver: The Grammatical Riddle of Being: Heidegger's Polysemous Participles
Lee Braver
Part IV. Engaging the Mystery: Agency, Attunement, Attention
Chapter 10. Releasement as a Mode of Knowing: The Mystically Noetic Core of Human Agency in Heidegger and Meister Eckhart
Erik Kuravsky
Chapter 11. The Path of Awakening a Fundamental Attunement
Jessica S. Elkayam
Chapter 12. The Question of Being as a Praxis of Mindfulness
Lawrence Berger
Part V. On the Way to a Dwelling Place (Among the Mystery of Things)
Chapter 13. "This - is the land - the Sunset washes -": Re-examining the Mystery of Place in Heidegger with Emily Dickinson
Axel Karamercan
Chapter 14. Heidegger's Fourfold Causality: The Mystical Path to Dwelling
Brendan Mahoney
Chapter 15. Heidegger and the Mystery of the Simple (Experiencing the Beynghistorical Word-thing)
Lasha Kharazi
Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Erik Kuravsky is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gregory Fried (Editor), Erik Kuravsky (Editor), Richard Polt (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9798881802141
• ISBN: 979-8-8818-0214-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 28 mm x 28 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works