Fourfold
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Heidegger's later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names "the fourfold"-a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals-and Mitchell's book is the first detailed exegesis of this neglected aspect of Heidegger's later thought. As such it provides entrée to the full landscape of Heidegger's postwar thinking, offering striking new interpretations of the atomic bomb, technology, plants, animals, weather, time, language, the holy, mortality, dwelling, and more. What results is a conception of things as ecstatic, relational, singular, and, most provocatively, as intrinsically tied to their own technological commodification. A major new work that resonates beyond the confines of Heidegger scholarship, The Fourfold proposes nothing less than a new phenomenological thinking of relationality and mediation for understanding the things around us.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Abbreviations and Conventions
- Introduction- The Fourfold: On the Relationality of Things
- 1. The Technological Challenge to Things
- §1. Machination as Representational Objectification
- §2. World War II
- §3. The Standing Reserve and the End of the Object
- a. The Standing Reserve Is Available
- b. The Standing Reserve Is Immediate
- c. The Standing Reserve Is Orderable
- §4. Positionality as Circulative Replacement
- a. Circulation, Rotation, Recurrence
- b. Replacement and Consumption
- §5. The Atomic Bomb
- 2. Earth, Bearing and Fructifying
- §6. Abyssal Bearing
- §7. Fruition of the Sensible
- §8. The Nature of the Earth
- a. Stones (Gestein)
- b. Waters (Gewässer)
- c. Plants (Gewächs)
- d. Animals (Getier)
- 3. Sky, Weathering Medium of Appearance
- §9. The Dimension between Earth and Sky
- a. The Between
- b. The Dimension
- §10. The Sky as Medium of Appearance
- a. Weather, Storms, and Lightning
- b. Aether
- c. Blue
- d. Clouds
- §11. The Time of the Sky
- a. "Natural" Time
- b. The Hours of the Day
- c. The Night, Its Stars, the Moon
- d. The Seasons of the Year
- 4. Divinities, Hinting Messengers of Godhood
- §12. The Hint
- a. Etymology
- b. The Hints of the Last God: From Representation to Belonging
- c. The Extra-Linguistic: Hint and Gesture
- §13. Messengers
- a. Hermeneutics from Facticity to Understanding
- b. A Messengerial Ontology
- §14. Godhood
- a. The Holy
- b. The Hale
- c. The God(s)
- §15. The Meaning of the Divine
- 5. Mortals, Being-in-Death
- §16. The Metaphysical Completion of the Animal Rationale
- a. The Worker (Jünger)
- b. The Angel (Rilke)
- c. The Übermensch (Nietzsche)
- §17. The Ability, the Capacity, to Die
- a. Being-toward-Death
- b. Being-in-Death
- §18. The Shrine of the Nothing, the Refuge of Being
- a. The Shrine of the Nothing
- b. The Refuge of Being
- c. The Secret of Being
- §19. Language and Mortality
- §20. Dwelling in Death, Residing amidst Things
- 6. The Slight and Abiding Thing
- §21. Mirror-Play and Speculation (Hegel)
- §22. The Slightness of Things
- a. The Round Dance
- b. The Slight (das Geringe)
- §23. The Thing Abides
- a. The While of the Festival (Hölderlin)
- b. Abiding Each Time Together (Anaximander)
- c. Abiding, Appropriating, Essencing
- §24. Thing as Gesture of World
- a. Gesture and Granting
- b. Differentiation and In-finitude
- Conclusion: There Have Never Been Things
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
