The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger

by Andrew Mitchell

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810130769
• ISBN13: 9780810130760
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"