Nice essay that lays out some insights about the late Heidegger:
“…The general contention of this essay is that there is a link between certain themes of Heidegger’s later work that ties them together as helpful means for the task Heidegger assigns to future thinking. The link here is one that in itself requires an open mind: it is the notion of openness, or composure, in experience (Gelassenheit). As I hope to show, this notion characterizes certain themes in Heidegger’s later reflections: those of the Clearing, of Heidegger’s turn against the Subject-centered Humanism behind Metaphysics and, its progeny, technological thinking; of Art and, overall, Heidegger’s notion of a ‘thing’; and, finally, of Poetic Dwelling…”
A forthcoming thinker, who might want to attempt the task to adopt the thinking which I am trying to set up, he will have to cope with an idea written by Heinrich von Kleist. I wrote it down in one of my notebooks: ‘I step back from someone who is not here yet and kneel down in front of his spirit one century before he comes’. Philosophy will be terminated as soon as merging to sciences’.
-Martin Heidegger 
The question that will guide the following paper is a simple one: What kind of thinking was Martin Heidegger trying to set up? The quotation of Heidegger listed above comes from the time of his 80th birthday, after 50 years of thinking deeply about the subjects that have occupied Western philosophy. We generally associate with him the question of Being, on this count, a question forgotten in time nearly 2500 years ago…
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