Shrink With Distance

nearness

is only true nearness through the concealed mirror-play of the fourfold.

All true nearness is nearness through the concealed mirror-play of the fourfold. When this nearness is withheld, reduced to presence, then we have the enframing.

is not achieved by airplanes and telephones. What is near to us are things, but no one really knows what a thing is.

Heidegger has already suggested that inventions such as airplanes and telephones do not give us true nearness. This leads him to ask what nearness really means. What is near to us are things, but no one really knows what a thing is. Many theories have been given about this topic, but so far no one has thought about the thing as thing. Heidegger tries to do nothing less than this, using the example of a jug.

is able to arrive only out from the fourfold. “The thing things,” and in this way brings the four to one another without erasing their distance from one another.

True nearness actually comes only from the fourfold. “The thing things,” and in this way brings the four to one another without erasing their distance from one another.

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