The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger Contributor(s): Mitchell, Andrew J. (Author), Steinbock, Anthony J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0810130777 ISBN-13: 9780810130777 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $98.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 193 |
LCCN: 2015006105 |
Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 392 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 entr e 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. |