Richard Rojcewicz is Scholar-in-Residence in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University and translator of several works by Heidegger, including the previous volume of the Black Notebooks, Ponderings II-VI, The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides, The Event, and (with Daniela Vallega-Neu) Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). Rojcewicz is author of The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger.