Nader El-Bizri is Professor of Philosophy & Civilization Studies, American University of Beirut.

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„Wege nicht Werke“:A Levantine Reception of Heidegger

This paper consists mainly of a critical and analytical examination of one of the earliest Anglophone commentaries on Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeitin 1937.  The text of this commentary is embodied in the hitherto unpublished typescript of “the division on Heidegger” from Charles Malik’s philosophy doctoral thesis, which unfolded under the mentorship of Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard University, and after Malik’s course of study under Heidegger at the Universität Freiburg (Freiburg im Breisgau) in 1935-1936.  This inquiry will be also situated in the context of probing the ethical horizons of their political commitments while taking into account how Heidegger’s oeuvres have migrated into the Arab and Islamicate milieu, and the Levant in particular, as exemplified in Malik’s reception of Heideggerianism; and furthermore as this is mediated via my commentary on him, in addition to my own contributions in Heideggerian studies (namely, on themes related to spatiality and Plato’s Khôra, to embodiment and perception in architectural humanities, and to the critical reading of the history of metaphysics with a focus on Avicenna’s onto-theology).

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