This lecture series is as close a companion and critique of Being & Time as I've come across and contains some of the clearest and most profound demonstrations of Heidegger's late thought. Throughout this series, he asks: what is thinking? what calls upon us to think? For Heidegger, the intellectual history of the West has been a deviation from the true content of thought: the thinking about the Being of beings, a notion misunderstood and neglected since Plato. Heidegger is trying to rewind two thousand years of intellectual history to the originary state of the Greek mind, to think as the Greeks thought when Parmenides grappled with Being as the essential question - a mystery for which even mighty Aristotle was afforded no relief. A weighty read & highly recommended for anyone who's read Being & Time without killing themselves.

Learning of the essential nature of things.

This is my philosophy prof's favorite book. I have consulted my classmates, making sure i was not the only one drowning in the vastness of inferiority. Heidegger dangles before us this intriguing and maddening possibility of a hierarchy of thinking, that we as humans are capable of and yet do not engage in this richer thinking. He presents questions, which often forces one's brain to play tag with itself, as to what is called thinking, what is that to which we call thinking or what calls forth thinking, the traditions required to think, etc (and I am not getting this verbatim at all). Lastly, Heidegger practically admits that it is near impossible to attain this Master Thinking, which would also incorporate memory (but not the way we think of memory as recalling, but more encompassing than this, more present) -- it is difficult to ascertain what it looks like, this thinking that Heidegger suggests, as well as trying to convey the entire idea in a nutshell.

Learning of the essential nature of things.

good one

Heidegger questions thinking and thought, and our usual conceptions of both.