summer 2025

---

See the site home page for the current update.

---

“On ’the essence of beyng’“ is in dialogue with Heidegger expressing his sense of “beyng.” That also provides a short sense of Heidegger’s practicality of interest in being with other persons through emancipatory teaching.

---

August 21 | “Richard Capobianco’s mystical Heidegger” is a close reading of his essay. Capobianco’s exemplary engagement with Heidegger as mystical is invalid, but critical reading of his essay by very close-to-text appreciation might be useful for others, especially for philosophy of education. My reading may seem tedious at times, but RC's own essay is available by link (and PDF download) at the top of my discussion, for following along .

---

Richard Capobianco’s mystical sense of Heidegger

---

A 4-part reading of Richard Capobianco’s sense of Heidegger is available here. It’s a very close reading, such that by Part 4 my dialogue is sometimes phrase by phrase with RC’s text.

---

August 23

I extracted all of the themes from my commentary, dividing them into three topical regions, primarily regarding a view of [1] RC’s stances, [2] Heidegger’s stances (as I understand him, of course), or [3] my own themes.

spring 2025

---

“Prospecting generative consilience” is proximally an interplay of outerworldly and innerworldly appeals.

---

April 30 | Being meta-semiotic: “molecular texting.”

---

April 29 | So much can be said about thinking relative to a lived continuum of value domains. “Gardening better humanity” links to a letter emailed yesterday to an esteemed professor of political theory, then I added some comment. .

---

after the onto-theo-logical constitution of the Holocaust

---

The early 20th century mandarins of German academia unwittingly rational-
ized Catholic capitalism: the “onto-“ of pretentious German power.

Holy Roman Catholicism unwittingly rationalized antisemitism: the “-theo-.“
of scapegoating.

Catholic capitalism enabled Hitlerism which thereby afforded engineering of the Holocaust: the “-logical” scaling of psychotic murder.

The native culpability of Germans—portended in the dynamic of “refusal” which Heidegger framed in Contributions to Philosophy (c1938) and his framing of German ideology in his notebooks—was so horrifying to Germans after the war that decades would pass before their innocent children would grow up to demand that their parents’ generation face accountability, which appeared academically as the Historikerstreit.

winter 2025

---

Working with hundreds of pages of offline notes can become vertiginous.

Anyway, the past month’s discussions relative to Heidegger are a departure from giving any more attention to his presence for awhile. But up the road, there will be intensive work relative to lots to do and share online meanwhile.

---

Feb. 7 | “Cartesian vs. hermeneutical sensibility” addresses interest in why scholars continue to invalidly associate Heidegger with sympathy for nazism, but I don’t get into detail about surviving those times. “Becoming post-Heideggerian” overviews what I’m generally doing with Heidegger’s thinking.
I want to leave Heideggerian interests behind, much as I’m thankful for the influence. Though I would enjoy sharing a close reading of any of “his” texts-in-English, I have more than enough attraction to other engagements.

---