Original title: Der Anfang der abendländischen Philosophie. Auslegung des Anaximander und Parmenides
Translation by Alberto Ciria

After "Being and Time," Martin Heidegger found in the Greeks the inspiration for his "way of thinking." Not only did he recall the return to Greece of a Friedrich Hölderlin, but he also adopted the radical gesture of Friedrich Nietzsche, who sought to recover the tragic philosophy of the Greeks prior to Socrates. In the pre-Socratics Heidegger will also see that dawn of philosophy whose understanding of the world and of language was forgotten by Western metaphysics. The lectures published here were given in the summer semester of 1932. In them, in line with the fragments, an interpretation of two of the most significant pre-Socratic thinkers in "the beginning of Western philosophy" is given. The famous "Sentence of Anaximander" and the no less famous "Poem of Parmenides" are foundational texts of philosophical discourse in which notions such as Justice, Truth or Being occupy a central place for the first time.