This page introduces readers to standard English translations (late 1960s, early 1970s) of Heidegger’s preferred thinking for audiences after WW-II. That translation project was due to Heidegger’s own preferences. The last item below, “readings...,” links to a sequenced list of PDF documents. My list doesn’t intend to be comprehensive, not even nearly so. It doesn’t include difficult analyses.

Heidegger was about enabling better thinking relative to open futures. All good mentors want to see you go your ownmost way. A posting by me which might be a good first point is “engaged being.” A new discussion, “there being ‘Dasein’,” complements “engaged being.”

The first item below is also new, “on a way to original thinking,” which shares my own sense of his ethical and conceptual originality very accessibly. But my overall project intends to be clear about the difference between Heidegger’s views and my Heideggerian views (other sections of “Heidegger studies” linked above).

He’s rigorous with his choice of conceptual commentary on his forgettable little poem (imagistic verse). He intimated near the end of his life, 1973, that something singular about his thinking is here (1947). I think there’s much to gain by dwelling with his conceptual commentary.