Northwestern University Press The fourfold: reading the late heidegger, paperback/andrew j. mitchell

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Contributor(s): Author: Andrew J.

Mitchell Editor: Anthony J.

Steinbock 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.