In a call to planetary thinking, planetary building, and planetary dwelling, Norman K. Swazo discusses Heidegger s thought as it relates to issues of global politics, specifically, the domain of world order studies. In the first division of the book, Swazo provides a theoretical critique of world order studies understood in the two modes of normative and technocratic futurism. The book s second division includes a preliminary attempt to clarify what Heidegger s call for essential thinking entails for political thinking. This signifies a new beginning for political discourse, heralded in the possibility of essential political thinking that Swazo calls autarchology. "