Heidegger and the Holy

Richard Capobianco is professor of philosophy and Meehan Humanities Scholar at Stonehill College. He has published three books Engaging Heidegger, Heidegger’s Way of Being, and the forthcoming Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, and numerous articles and reviews on Heidegger. He has also collaborated on translations and research into archival material.

• Introduction: Dwelling in Nearness to the Holy by Richard CapobiancoNotes on the Text and Heidegger’s GesamtausgabeChapter 1: The Holy in Heidegger: The Open Clearing as Excess and Abyss by John W.M. KrummelChapter 2: The Unsayable Mystery of the Holy: Hölderlin’s Late Poetry by Sazan KryeziuChapter 3: The Divine as the Origin of the Work of Art by Lawrence BergerChapter 4: Poetic Colors of the Holy: Heidegger on Pindar and Trakl by Ian Alexander MooreChapter 5: Tracing the Holy in Heidegger’s Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” by Elias SchwielerChapter 6: Heidegger and the Question and the Need of the Holy by Holger ZaborowskiChapter 7: Through Being to the Holy: Learning to Ask the Question of Being by Joeri SchrijversChapter 8: The Holy in Heidegger’s Reading of Greek Tragedy: Necessity, Measure, and Law by James M. MagriniChapter 9: Retrieving and Constructing a Spatial-Phenomenology of the Holy in the Early Heidegger by Paul DownesContributorsIndex

This is a beautiful book. It takes up an aspect of Heidegger’s work that is highly poetic and, in its poetry, evocative of a sense of astonishment and awe before the divine. Of course, it is a work of philosophy, but the essays, in addition to being well written, use a rigorous interrogation of the concept of the Holy to also evoke a sense of peaceful wonder.