Encounters with Heidegger
A Journey into Being and Time
Summary
This volume invites you on an imaginary journey alongside the philosopher, where each stop becomes an opportunity to explore—vividly and concretely—the major themes of his magnum opus: the question of Being, Dasein, being-in-the-world, facticity, understanding, care, anxiety, authenticity, temporality, projection, death, and freedom.
Through these exchanges, you are guided on a journey that is both intellectually rigorous and profoundly engaging, illuminating the deepest dimensions of Heidegger’s thinking, all within the timeless atmosphere of Greek wisdom.
Whether you are new to Heidegger or already familiar with this seminal 20th-century thinker, this book invites you to rediscover how Being reveals itself in the fabric of everyday life—even as it has been progressively obscured by the metaphysical tradition—under the radiant light of the Greek islands or in the shadow of the Parthenon.
A bold and accomplished attempt to draw Heidegger into a fictional conversation set in the places in Greece that meant most to him. The book explores key ideas from Being and Time with extraordinary clarity and vividness—especially those fundamental insights that still have the power to orient our lives today. In addition, the book offers genuine aesthetic pleasure.
— Rüdiger Safranski, author of Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Question of Being at the Origins of Western Philosophy
- Being in the Human World
- Heidegger’s Political Involvement: A Compromising Legacy
- FIRST ENCOUNTER Ithaca
- The Forgetfulness of Being and the Ontological Difference
- SECOND ENCOUNTER Island of Crete
- Revealing What Does Not Show Itself
- The Project of a Universal Phenomenological Ontology
- THIRD ENCOUNTER Island of Rhodes
- Being-there (Dasein)
- The Existential Analytic
- The Being-thrown
- FOURTH ENCOUNTER Delos
- The Existentials
- The Useful Being and the Subsisting Being
- “It Worlds”
- World-forming and World-poor
- FIFTH ENCOUNTER Athens
- The Nature of the Work of Art and of Nature
- Being-there, with Others
- Being-there, Dissolved in the “They”
- SIXTH ENCOUNTER Cape Sounion
- Passion and Understanding
- The Pre-structural Nature of Understanding
- SEVENTH ENCOUNTER Delphi
- Dasein and Temporality
- Finitude and Being-toward-Death
- The Anxious Being
- Being and Time
- The Influence of Being and Time
- The Influence of Being and Time Beyond Philosophy
- After Being and Time
- Analytical Supplements
- Aristotle and the Ten Categories
- Being in Hegel
- The Intentional Object in Ingarden
- The “Science of Being as Being” in Aristotle
- Intentionality in Brentano and Meinong
- Hegel’s Critique of the Distinction Between Phenomenon and Noumenon
- Nietzschean Perspectivism
- The Cartesian Cogito
- Gadamer’s Conception of Art
- The In-Itself and For-Itself in Hegel
- Annotated Bibliography
- A. Original Works and Translations
- B. Biographies of Heidegger
- C. On Being and Time
- Index
Encounters
with
Heidegger
A Journey into Being and Time
New York · Berlin · Bruxelles · Chennai · Lausanne · Oxford
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chapados, Steeven, author
Title: Encounters with Heidegger : a journey into Being and Time / Steeven Chapados.
Other titles: Rencontres avec Heidegger. English
Description: New York : Peter Lang, [2026] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2025035050 (print) | LCCN 2025035051 (ebook) | ISBN 9783034357661 hardback | ISBN 9783034357678 pdf | ISBN 9783034357685 epub
Subjects: LCSH: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Sein und Zeit | Philosophy, Ancient | Ontology | Imaginary conversations
Classification: LCC B3279.H49 C4613 2025 (print) | LCC B3279.H49 (ebook)
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025035050
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025035051
ISBN 978-3-0343-5766-1 (Print)
ISBN 978-3-0343-5767-8 (E-PDF)
ISBN 978-3-0343-5768-5 (E-PUB)
DOI 10.3726/b23266
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To Jean Grondin,
To the man and his light.
Contents
The Question of Being at the Origins of Western Philosophy
Heidegger’s Political Involvement: A Compromising Legacy
The Forgetfulness of Being and the Ontological Difference
Second Encounter. Island of Crete
Revealing What Does Not Show Itself
The Project of a Universal Phenomenological Ontology
Third Encounter. Island of Rhodes
The Useful Being and the Subsisting Being
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- 9783034357678
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- Keywords
- Heidegger Being and Time Dasein Philosophy Existentialism Ontology Greece Philosophical journey Being Meaning of Being Authenticity Temporality Death Freedom World Care Anxiety Philosophical fiction Dialogue Phenomenology Steeven Chapados Encounters with Heidegger
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