The Mystery of Being: Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger’s Thought

Erik Kuravsky is a researcher in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Transcendence in Heidegger’s Early Thought: Toward Being as Event (2023). His research explores the potential for self-fulfillment in human life, examining the ethical, epistemic, and existential dimensions of an individual’s ontological transformation. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, his work has been published in Research in Phenomenology, Religions, Sophia, Open Theology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Gatherings, and Circolo Rivista di Filosofia e Culture, as well as in various books on phenomenology and the intersections of philosophy and mysticism.