Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and the author of numerous works including Being and Time.

• Translator’s Introduction Part One: On the Essence of LanguageThe Saga1. The Resolution2. The Characteristics of the Decision3. The Question of Being4. The Question of Being (The First and the Other Inception)5. The Two Leaps in the Attempt to Think Being6. The Three Insights and Knowledge7. Beyng, “Spirit,” Cognition8. The Saga9. The Beyng-Historical Inception10. The History of Beyng11. “The History of Philosophy” and the History of Being12. Beyng-Historical “Thinking”13. Steadfastness and Thinking14. The “Concept” – Distancing – Naysaying15. The No of Beyng-Historical Thinking16. Naysaying and Questioning17. The Word18. Beyng and Word19. Beyng as the Appropriating Event (The Human)20. Beyng and Attunement21. Beyng22. The Nothing and Beyng23. Beyng as Nothing24. The Nothing25. The Event of Appropriation26. Event of Appropriation27. Beyng28. Beyng, God, the Human29. Beyng30. Beyng is and only Beyng Is31. Abyssal Ground32. Beyng33. The More Inceptual Saga34. The Untenability of the Differentiation between “Being” and “Becoming”35. Truth and System36. The Attunement of the Voice Determines37. Where is a Measure?38. Not What “is Coming”39. What Are “We” To Do40. Not a “New” Philosophy41. Where Do We Stand? Directed Toward the History of Beyng42. A Curious Delusion of this Age43. Steadfastness and Duty44. The Saga45. The Crux of the Error46. Time-Space (cf. Contributions, Grounding)47. The Temporalization of Time48. Time-SpaceThe Word. On the Essence of LanguageThe Quickening Element of the WordThe Birth of LanguageThe BeginningThe Unique ElementAddendaWord – Sign – Conversation – LanguageI. The Word and LanguageII. The Sign (Its Essence Bound to the Event)III. The Word. Conversation and LanguageIV. The Word (CF. Poetizing and Thinking)V. The Word and LanguageVI. Word and “Language”VII. The Essential Prevailing of the WordVIII. Image and Sound – The SensibleIX. LanguageX. LanguageOn Eduard Mörike’s Poems “September Morning” and “At Midnight”ADDENDA Image and WordPart Two: On the Question of ArtOn the Question of ArtArt and SpaceThe Work of Art and “Art History”Reflection upon the Essence and Conduct of the Art-Historical “Science”Editor’s AfterwordGlossariesEnglish–GermanGerman–English

"This volume invites us to follow Heidegger as he thinks on paper and to join in his explorations of being, language, and art. Adam Knowles' thoughtful translation conveys the dogged inventiveness of these texts."—Richard Polt, Xavier University"These starkly polysemic notes on language, poetry, and art dramatically elaborate Heidegger's later phenomenological understanding of how poetry gives rise to both art and language, how that emergence gets disastrously eclipsed and forgotten by Western metaphysics, and what it means to rediscover being's poetic emergence today. Here Heidegger finally thinks clearly through the distinction between 'the being of entities' (or 'beingness,' the domain of metaphysics) and 'beyng' (or 'being as such,' the heart of the matter for poetic thinking), that crucial distinction which both destroys the early 'metaphysical' project of Being and Time and launches his later work of thinking beyond metaphysics (and the nihilistic history metaphysics underwrites)."—Professor Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico"This translation [. . .] constitutes an invitation to embark on a journey into Heidegger's thinking about language and art, and as such succeeds almost as well in the English version as it does in the German original, something which can by no means be said of all Heidegger translations. We congratulate the translator on this achievement—as well as its English readership for now having these texts at their disposal."—Energeia: Online Journal for Linguistics, Language Philosophy and History of Linguistics