What Is Metaphysics?

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"What Is Metaphysics?" (German : Was ist Metaphysik?) is a lecture by the philosopher Martin Heidegger, first presented to the faculties of the University of Freiburg on July 24, 1929, as inaugural address.^[1]

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English translations

R.F.C. Hull and Alan Crick in 1949, in Existence and Being, edited by Werner Brock (Chicago: Henry Regnery), pp. 325–349
David Krell, in Basic Writings (1977) New York: Harper and Row (expanded edition, 1993), pp. 93–110
Miles Groth, "What Is Metaphysics?"^[2]

References

↑ Paluch, S. J. (June 1970). "Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics?"". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 30 (4): 603. doi:10.2307/2105640. ISSN 0031-8205.
↑ "Miles Groth's Translation" (PDF).

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Full text of "Was ist Metaphysik?" (in German) at HathiTrust Digital Library

v t e Martin Heidegger
Philosophy	Aletheia Dasein Ekstase Fundamental ontology Gestell Hermeneutic circle "Language speaks" Metaphysics of presence Ontic Terminology Thrownness World disclosure
Works	Being and Time (1927) "What Is Metaphysics?" (1929) Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1929) "Introduction to Metaphysics" (1935) Black Notebooks (1931–41) "The Age of the World Picture" (1938) Contributions to Philosophy (1936–1938) "Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"" (1942) "Letter on Humanism" (1947) The Question Concerning Technology (1949) Off the Beaten Track (1950) "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1950) What Is Called Thinking? (1951–2) What Is Philosophy? (1955) "Only a God Can Save Us" (1966) Heidegger Gesamtausgabe
Film and TV	Der Zauberer von Meßkirch (1989) Human, All Too Human (1999) The Ister (2004) Being in the World (2010)
Related topics	Heidegger scholars Heidegger Studies Studia Heideggeriana Relationship with Nazism Cassirer–Heidegger debate Thing theory

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What Is Metaphysics?

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English translations

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References

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