William J. Richardson on Heidegger's Being and Time

Bill Richardson on Heidegger's Being and Time with reflections on Errancy and Truth. Babette Babich asks William J. Richardson what, for him personally, stands out about Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. Video: Babette Babich
Recorded 7 October 2011, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

[@boideye]

Thanks again! William F. Richardson is certainly a great scholar.

[@xstaycold]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I love Richardson segment on discussing alethea. I love that idea of truth as an unveiling. I feel Heraclitus piercing through much of Heidegger and I love it

[@53aleksandra]

Krzysztof Michalski introduced me to Heidegger.
Babette Babich introduced me to William F.Richardson.Thank You BOTH,

[@rhwinner]

Wonderful explanation of Being and Time.

[@Snowcountry556]

This is great, thanks for recording it.

[@roisinbradley]

This is wonderful. Thank you thank you.

[@BabetteBabich]

Don't try this alone -- read these authors with others! Follow your own mind in every case, but a class offers the guidance of others who have read these texts sometimes hundreds of times, and the experiences of others taking the plunge for the first few times.

[@HerrTillman]

The man is just emanating good vibes!

[@obbeachbum69]

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

[@Sandraodea13]

This IS art in words

[@boideye]

Prof Babich, as I studied Heidegger, I noticed his return to the pre=Socratics. At some point, I concluded that Heidegger integrates Heraclitus and Parmenides in his ontology.. Like Heraclitus, he did not believe in essences but rather modes of being such as Dasein or Vorhandenheit .Like Parmenides, he sought a unifying principle underlying all reality and for Heidegger, this principle was Sein (Being). I wonder if this is a correct interpretation of Heidegger?

[@musicmathieu]

Thank you for the video, it also helped me get a clearly picture of Husserlian phenomenology. I hope you don't mind me asking, I was wondering, with all the different variations in today's new age spiritualities, some being more superfluous than others, while containing some major themes like getting rid of the world of duality etc. is it fair to say, much of this began with the work of Heidegger? Thank you

[@BabetteBabich]

I myself certainly see the connection with presocratic thinking. But I nonetheless find that Richardson highlights important dimensions in Heidegger's thought not least Heidegger's relation to Aristotle per se.

[@JosephTheodoreWeber]

I just finished a seminar with Bill, he's as sharp as he ever was!

[@Mtmonaghan]

Currently, the IS can say of you, IS THERE, but at sometime, the IS can only say of you, WAS THERE.

[@GloriaCompton]

grateful.

[@TheYanbibiya]

thank you

[@mensabs]

Bravo!

[@boideye]

Thank you for this informative presentation! Very nice. Prof Babich, would you consider yourself a Heideggerian with respect to ontology or hermeneutics?

[@BabetteBabich]

For a lifelong friend's account of the circumstances and details of Bill Richardson's rather famed thesis defense in Louvain (Leuven), see the interview Patrick Heelan gave, posted on TH-cam: