Together, the chapters cover the full range of Heidegger's. Each chapter introduces and explains a key Heideggerian concept, or a cluster of closely related concepts. 'Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts' is designed to facilitate this. To think with nature as a poietic event of openness requires a reawakened trust in Being and a recovery of the ontological bearing of art. Yet any student of philosophy needs to become acquainted with Heidegger's thought. Gelassenheit does not mean simply returning to the things of nature in poetic dwelling, but a twisting free from technology in poietic openness.

The paper counters another way of reading Heidegger’s writings on art and technology which argues for a leap out of technology into poetic dwelling with nature, arguing that this neo-Romantic view overlooks crucial aspects of Heidegger’s concept of Gelassenheit: the non-willing “letting be” that enables humans to be with the things of nature in their otherwise possibilities – other than as ordered by technological enframing. Art keeps open the possibility that human being might be otherwise than as the being destined for technological enframing. In its singularly resistive stance within technology, art partakes in the “other beginning,” or the turning of technology out of itself and towards the event of Being.

Heidegger’s writings on art and technology indicate a way of thinking with technology otherwise, in the openness of the event of Being (Ereignis). The following notes indicate the sources. Nature philosophy is a thinking with nature “otherwise” in open possibility. The present volume is composed, with Heidegger's consent, ‘of writings from various works, chosen because they fit together to bring out the main drift of his thinking that relates poetry, art, thought, and language to Being and to man's existing as the mortal he is. This paper undertakes a reading of Heidegger’s later writing in terms of nature philosophy.

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