Discourse on Thinking

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Discourse on Thinking is a philosophical work by Martin Heidegger that explores the nature of thinking and meditative reflection beyond the confines of traditional metaphysics and scientific rationality.

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instanceOf philosophical work
addresses modern technological world
relationship between man and Being
aimsTo reorient understanding of thinking beyond mere calculation
author Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED
centralConcept calculative thinking
meditative thinking
openness to the mystery
releasement toward things
contrasts meditative thinking and calculative thinking
countryOfOrigin Germany
emphasizes letting-be of beings
non-instrumental relation to things
focusesOn limits of scientific-technical thinking
possibility of a more originary thinking
question of what it means to think
form essay
philosophical dialogue
genre philosophy
hasPart Conversation on a Country Path about Thinking NERFINISHED
Memorial Address
influencedBy Edmund Husserl NERFINISHED
Friedrich Nietzsche
German idealism
language German
mainTheme beyond traditional metaphysics
critique of scientific rationality
meditative reflection
nature of thinking
relation between thinking and technology
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Gelassenheit NERFINISHED
philosopher Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED
philosophicalMovement existential phenomenology
philosophicalSubject human existence
metaphysics
ontology
technology
philosophicalTradition continental philosophy NERFINISHED
phenomenology
publicationYear 1959
publisher Neske (original German edition) NERFINISHED
relatedWork Being and Time NERFINISHED
The Question Concerning Technology NERFINISHED
settingOfPart country path conversation
translatedInto English

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