sheltering

is to give peace or silence to world and thing in their relation to one another.

Continuing to develop the strange terminology of the essay, Heidegger says that to shelter or protect something in this calm means to give peace or silence to world and thing in their relation to one another. The gathering can be referred to as a “sounding,” which Heidegger (not surprisingly) distinguishes from all present-at-hand transmission of sound. Putting these two thoughts together, Heidegger says that language speaks because language is the sounding of the silence of the fourfold. As the reader may already have guessed, this essay is generally regarded as one of Heidegger’s strangest.

sheltering, n.Definitions

sheltering