Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction- The Fourfold: On the Relationality of Things
1. The Technological Challenge to Things
§1. Machination as Representational Objectification
§2. World War II
§3. The Standing Reserve and the End of the Object
a. The Standing Reserve Is Available
b. The Standing Reserve Is Immediate
c. The Standing Reserve Is Orderable
§4. Positionality as Circulative Replacement
a. Circulation, Rotation, Recurrence
b. Replacement and Consumption
§5. The Atomic Bomb
2. Earth, Bearing and Fructifying
§6. Abyssal Bearing
§7. Fruition of the Sensible
§8. The Nature of the Earth
a. Stones (Gestein)
b. Waters (Gewässer)
c. Plants (Gewächs)
d. Animals (Getier)
3. Sky, Weathering Medium of Appearance
a. The Between
b. The Dimension
a. Weather, Storms, and Lightning
b. Aether
c. Blue
d. Clouds
a. “Natural” Time
b. The Hours of the Day
c. The Night, Its Stars, the Moon
d. The Seasons of the Year
4. Divinities, Hinting Messengers of Godhood
a. Etymology
b. The Hints of the Last God: From Representation to Belonging
c. The Extra-Linguistic: Hint and Gesture
§13. Messengers
a. Hermeneutics from Facticity to Understanding
b. A Messengerial Ontology
§14. Godhood
a. The Holy
b. The Hale
c. The God(s)
§15. The Meaning of the Divine
5. Mortals, Being-in-Death
§16. The Metaphysical Completion of the Animal Rationale
a. The Worker (Jünger)
b. The Angel (Rilke)
c. The Übermensch (Nietzsche)
§17. The Ability, the Capacity, to Die
a. Being-toward-Death
b. Being-in-Death
§18. The Shrine of the Nothing, the Refuge of Being
a. The Shrine of the Nothing
b. The Refuge of Being
c. The Secret of Being
§19. Language and Mortality
§20. Dwelling in Death, Residing amidst Things
6. The Slight and Abiding Thing
§21. Mirror-Play and Speculation (Hegel)
a. The Round Dance
b. The Slight (das Geringe)
§23. The Thing Abides
a. The While of the Festival (Hölderlin)
b. Abiding Each Time Together (Anaximander)
c. Abiding, Appropriating, Essencing
§24. Thing as Gesture of World
a. Gesture and Granting
b. Differentiation and In-finitude
Conclusion: There Have Never Been Things
Notes
Bibliography
Index