Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on Heidegger's understanding of Greek thinking, as well as his understanding of Germany, the history of philosophy, the Western world, and their shared destinies.

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.

Translator's Foreword

The Inception of Occidental Thinking: Heraclitus
Preliminary concerns: Philosophy as the authentic thinking of the to-be-thought. On the inception of "Occidental" thinking

Introduction: Preliminary Consideration of the Inceptual and the Word
1. Two stories concerning Heraclitus as introduction to his word
2. The word in the inception of thinking

Main Part: The Truth of Being

Logic: Heraclitus's Doctrine of the Logos
Prologue

First Section: Logic: Its Name and Its Matter

Second Section: The Primordial and the Paths to Access

Third Section: Retreat into the Originary Region of Logic

Supplement
Editor's afterword
German to English Glossary
English to German Glossary