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The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger
Andrew Mitchell
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810130760
SKU
V9780810130760
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About Andrew Mitchell
Andrew J. Mitchell is an associate professor of philosophy at Emory University, USA. His previous books include Heidegger among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (2010), and translations of Heidegger’s On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The 1934–35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays (2014), Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking (2012), ... Read more
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