The Martin Heidegger’s conference “On the essence of truth” was repeatedly
pronounced between 1930 and 1932, published in 1943 and continued to be adjusted by the
author until the sixties. In many ways, it seems to have a special role as a kind of “hinge”
between Heidegger’s Being and Time and after the “turn” [Kehre] of his thinking, process that
began precisely from thirties. With such intermediary role, the conference begins with
conceptions still addressed from the perspective of Being and T…
Read moreThe Martin Heidegger’s conference “On the essence of truth” was repeatedly
pronounced between 1930 and 1932, published in 1943 and continued to be adjusted by the
author until the sixties. In many ways, it seems to have a special role as a kind of “hinge”
between Heidegger’s Being and Time and after the “turn” [Kehre] of his thinking, process that
began precisely from thirties. With such intermediary role, the conference begins with
conceptions still addressed from the perspective of Being and Time, as the question of truth; but
inserts fundamental themes, relating to the later work of the German thinker, as the notion of the
veiling of being, the concept of errance and the perspective, only started at this conference, from
a transformation of the very concept of essence [Wesen]
