existenzial but existenziell content and ought to concern itself not just with what we think but also with who we are. The reason is Bill Richardson himself. I remember first meeting Bill at a conference on hermeneutics at Williams College many many years ago. I had returned from five years of doctoral studies in Heidelberg and he was, of course, well-known there for his "Bahnbrechendes Heidegger-Buch", but in Bill's case knowing his written work, however magnificent it surely is, is, I found out, entirely secondary to knowing him. For I saw immediately that he had experienced, perhaps as no one I had met, the demand placed on each of us by the Zurückschlagen der Philosophie in die Existenz, the repercussion of philosophy in one's own existence (see SZ 38); for Bill philosophy must count in the way one leads one's life "there" in the world, with others." /> The uses and abuses of Aristotle's Rhetoric in Heidegger's fundamental ontology - | sdvig press