Erik Kuravsky
I am a Minerva Stiftung postdoc fellow in the University of Erfurt. My research interests include Martin Heidegger, Neoplatonism, Merab Mamardaashvili, Meister Eckhart, and phenomenology of religious and mystical experience in general.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Zaborowski
Phone: +491636973247
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Zaborowski
Phone: +491636973247
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thinker 'endures the departure' (i.e., the difference). The lecture asks about the conditions of such questioning 'on the part of the questioner.' Namely, can we choose to question Being – as we perhaps imagine doing in our 'scholarly works' – or is such a “choice” precisely an expression of our self-understanding as rational animals somehow “opposed” to Being? How
do we let ourselves be 'thought-away' from this self-understanding, and is it not the primary and sole question that should concern us?"
All these ideas betray a dependence of the world, and especially of its divine order, on human existence. From an ontological perspective, such ideas entail an essential non-duality between human existence and Being. What these ideas do not mean is that without human existence, and accordingly without meaningful, reasonable order, the universe would vanish into an absolute nihil. This would only be true if the universe could be reduced to its manifestly orderly aspect, the way representational thinking imagines it. Heidegger’s thinking, however, rejects such reduction from the very beginning of his teaching path in 1919. The guiding idea of this lecture is the relation in Heidegger and Meister Eckhart between the inseparability of the human and the divine (i.e., their non-duality) and the irreducibility of the universe to a manifestly orderly aspect, which the Greeks named Cosmos.
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Review by Erik Kuravsky of my 2023 book:
The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness represents a groundbreaking contribution to the phenomenology of attention, setting a new standard that future works in the field will undoubtedly need to consider. The book also stands as a notable contribution to the study of Heidegger, shedding light on the nuances of his perception of humanity’s role in the cosmos and forging connections between his ideas and the practical application of mindfulness.
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thinker 'endures the departure' (i.e., the difference). The lecture asks about the conditions of such questioning 'on the part of the questioner.' Namely, can we choose to question Being – as we perhaps imagine doing in our 'scholarly works' – or is such a “choice” precisely an expression of our self-understanding as rational animals somehow “opposed” to Being? How
do we let ourselves be 'thought-away' from this self-understanding, and is it not the primary and sole question that should concern us?"
All these ideas betray a dependence of the world, and especially of its divine order, on human existence. From an ontological perspective, such ideas entail an essential non-duality between human existence and Being. What these ideas do not mean is that without human existence, and accordingly without meaningful, reasonable order, the universe would vanish into an absolute nihil. This would only be true if the universe could be reduced to its manifestly orderly aspect, the way representational thinking imagines it. Heidegger’s thinking, however, rejects such reduction from the very beginning of his teaching path in 1919. The guiding idea of this lecture is the relation in Heidegger and Meister Eckhart between the inseparability of the human and the divine (i.e., their non-duality) and the irreducibility of the universe to a manifestly orderly aspect, which the Greeks named Cosmos.
Review by Erik Kuravsky of my 2023 book:
The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness represents a groundbreaking contribution to the phenomenology of attention, setting a new standard that future works in the field will undoubtedly need to consider. The book also stands as a notable contribution to the study of Heidegger, shedding light on the nuances of his perception of humanity’s role in the cosmos and forging connections between his ideas and the practical application of mindfulness.