ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the significant aspects of the Turn and the renewed approach to Heidegger's project after Being and Time. Heidegger's later works, the consideration of art is uniquely and intimately linked with the question of Dasein's "vocation" and "destiny", its authentic historical existence as a communal being, or Mitsein. The chapter addresses the philosophical issue that Heidegger struggles with during the Turn, and so we interpret the manner in which both great art and originary "thinking" open and ready Dasein for its authentic historical and hence communal existence. Heidegger's fundamental ontology, functions as an overarching ontological category set off from its instantiation within Dasein's practical modes of comportment. Unlike Being and Time, Heidegger no longer considers death in relation to the individuated Dasein, but rather, death and the authentic communal Dasein are rethought in terms of the historical event of Being.
