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		being a scholar of Heidegger’s ways gary e. davis		August 2025
		recent: “On “the essence of beyng”, then “A sense of Being and Time” is followed by two critiques: “Cartesian sensibility vs. hermeneutical sensibility” prospects why scholars politically misread Heidegger. “Heidegger was not a ‘mystical’ philosopher” begins to separate a genuine appeal of mystery from a mystification of the appeal. August: “Let’s clear thinking”: a sense of clarity beyond mystification, which begins a discussion of Richard Capobianco’s sense of Heidegger, which is continued as “Richard Capobianco’s mystical sense of Heidegger.” July 2015 This page will grow. \| February 26, 2024: “will,” I don’t know... I came across an academic entrepreneur who intently promotes the small gang of voices who are invested in a fictional “Heidegger,” exactly as Heidegger anticipated 70 years earlier (“lament...” below). It’s amazing, analogously as obsessive interest in nazism mirrors one’s own Shadow. If you want evidentiary discussion of such a matter, contact is easy.

	AUG 2025	On “the essence of beyng”
			commentary on passage #133 of Contributions to Philosophy, p. 197-8, of the 2012 translation

	MAY 2025	a sense of Being and Time
			After decades if influence by Heidegger’s thinking, I wanted to free associate about my sense of Being and Time in his career.

	APR 2025	Heidegger was not a “mystical” philosopher
			Common practice by Heidegger scholars mystifies what Heidegger was doing. His calling is kindred with asking: What is the meaning (the significance) of being alive?

	FEB 2025	Cartesian sensibility vs. hermeneutical sensibility
			Standard readings of Heidegger look for a conceptual core which is supplementally discursive rather than accurately discerning that therebeing, for Heidegger, is funda- mentally interpersonal, thus oriented toward facilitating emancipatory thinking.

	MAY 2014	note on the phenomenality of a text
			Transcripts of Heidegger’s lectures would include responses to audience questions that lack the audience question, thus appearing to be a planned part of the lecture, thus seeming to have implicature that the comments do not have.

MAY 2014

Richard Capobianco’s “Heidegger”

• Let’s clear thinking (second half of the discussion)
• Richard Capobianco’s mystical sense of Heidegger

	MAY 2014	lament—and hope for Arrival
			Heidegger anticipated that a “gang” of opportunists would write their own fictional “Heidegger.”

	MAY 2014	What is translation?
			This briefly compares a passage from Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics from two translations in order to show how fidelity to Heidegger’s thinking works better in the translation that was done in consultation with Heidegger himself.

	MAY 2014	Theodore Kisiel gets grouchy about doing Heidegger in English
			Translating posthumous texts has become an industry. One can almost gain tenure without understanding Heidegger’s thinking, if you’re expert with academic German. Who’s going to substantively complain, after the scholars who knew Heidegger, the person, die?

	AUG 2025	Let’s clear thinking
			The notion of clearing is integral for Heidegger. But it has nothing to do with opening existence to exaltation of “Being.”


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