What Is Called Thinking?

What is called thinking? (German: Was heißt Denken?) is a book by the philosopher Martin Heidegger, the published version of a lecture course he gave during the winter and summer semesters of 1951 and 1952 at the University of Freiburg.^[1][2]

What Is Called Thinking

Cover of the first edition
Author	Martin Heidegger
Original title	Was heißt Denken?
Translator	1968: Fred D. Wick and J. Glenn Gray
Language	German
Subject	Thought, ontology
Publisher	1954: Max Nlemeyer Verlag
Publication date	1954
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1968: Harper & Row
ISBN	3-15-008805-4
Preceded by	The Origin of the Work of Art

Reception

The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that "For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker's late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books."^[3]