Building Dwelling Thinking by Martin Heidegger

Part VIII: Building Dwelling Thinking, from Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger

Our last selection from Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger is Part VIII: Building Dwelling Thinking.

In this short essay, the later Heidegger is in poetical mode. Building on his earlier remarks on "dwelling in the truth of being" from the Letter on Humanism, he reflects on the relation between the act of building and our dwelling within the world, and on the kind of thinking that results from our attention to that relation. He also introduces what he calls the Fourfold (das Geviert) - earth, sky, divinities and mortals. Let's see if we can figure out what he means!

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