Description The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe).
The text presents with particular clarity Heidegger's distinctive approach to issues of general philosophical interest.
Heidegger shows how a litany of classical metaphysical problems flow from the basic question 'what is.