This article is a continuation of Being as Place: Introduction to Metaphysics – Part One, where I explored Heidegger’s metaphysical discourse on Being, examining how it intersects with the reformed concept of place I am discussing at RSaP-Rethinking Space and Place. So far in the first three chapters of Introduction to Metaphysics (the 2000-edition translated by Gregory Fried and Richard…
Building on the new translation of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (2000), this article presents Heidegger’s metaphysical discussion of Being, and I hope it will contribute to clarifying the foundation for the reinterpretation of traditional concepts of place, space, time, and matter that I am advocating for at RSaP-Rethinking Space and Place. This ground shares many intersecting threads with Heidegger’s concept…
One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized by the following assertion: at the fundamental level, for me, things and places are the same. It is as if there is just one entity (or sub-stance, in the metaphysical sense of that which stays under what appears), which I can call…