Editing Martin Heidegger (section)

===Later works: The Turn===
{{see also|Kehre}}
Heidegger's "Turn", which is sometimes referred to by the German ''die [[Kehre]]'', refers to a change in his work as early as 1930 that became clearly established by the 1940s, according to some commentators, who variously describe a shift of focus or a major change in outlook.{{sfn|Korab-Karpowicz|loc=§1}}{{sfn|Richardson|1963}}{{efn|"In a 1947 piece, in which Heidegger distances his views from Sartre's existentialism, he links the turn to his own failure to produce the missing divisions of ''Being and Time'' [i.e., "Time and Being"]. ... At root Heidegger's later philosophy shares the deep concerns of ''Being and Time'', in that it is driven by the same preoccupation with [[Being]] and our relationship with it that propelled the earlier work. ... [T]he later Heidegger does seem to think that his earlier focus on Dasein bears the stain of a [[subjectivity]] that ultimately blocks the path to an understanding of Being. This is not to say that the later thinking turns away altogether from the project of [[transcendental hermeneutic phenomenology]]. The project of illuminating the a priori conditions on the basis of which entities show up as intelligible to us is still at the heart of things."{{sfn|Wheeler|2020|loc=§3.1}} }}

Heidegger himself frequently used the term to refer to the shift announced at the end of ''Being and Time'' from "being and time" to "time and being". However, he rejected the existence of the "sharp 'about turn{{'"}} posited by some interpreters.{{sfn|Inwood|1999|page=8}} Scholar [[Michael Inwood]] also calls attention to the fact that many of the ideas from ''Being and Time'' are retained in a different vocabulary in his later work—and also that, in other cases, a word or expression common throughout his career comes to acquire a different meaning in the later works.{{sfn|Inwood|1999|page=8}}

This supposed shift—applied here to cover about 30 years of Heidegger's 40-year writing career—has been described by commentators from widely varied viewpoints, for instance, from ''dwelling'' (being) in the world to ''doing'' (temporality) in the world.{{sfn|Wheeler|2020|loc=§3.1}}{{sfn|Heidegger|2002}} This aspect, in particular the 1951 essay "Building Dwelling Thinking", has influenced several architectural theorists.{{sfn|Davies|2017}}

Other interpreters believe the Turn can be overstated or doesn't exist at all. For instance, [[Thomas Sheehan (philosopher)|Thomas Sheehan]] believes this supposed change is "far less dramatic than usually suggested", and entails merely a change in focus and method.{{sfn|Polt|Fried|2001|page=15}} [[Mark Wrathall]] argued that the Turn isn't found in Heidegger's writings, but is simply a misconception.{{sfn|Wrathall|2010}}

Some notable later works are "[[The Origin of the Work of Art]]" (1935), ''[[Contributions to Philosophy]]'' (1937), "[[Letter on Humanism]]" (1946), "Building Dwelling Thinking" (1951), "[[The Question Concerning Technology]]" (1954), and "[[What Is Called Thinking?]]" (1954).