MARTIN HEIDEGGER Off the Beaten Track EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY JULIAN YOUNG AND KENNETH HAYNES Fe CAMBRIDGE pert | Se UNIVERSITY PRESSPUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cz 2, UK 4o West zoth Street, New York, sv 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcén 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8oor, South Africa hetp//www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2002 ‘The publication of this translation has benefited from the assistance of INTER NATIONES, Bonn. Originally published as Hotzwege by Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. © 1950. This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the writeen permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2002 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeface Janson rolt3 pt System WTEX2¢ [7] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. [Holzwege. English] Off the beaten track/Martin Heidegger, edited and translated by Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes. P. cm. ISBN 0 521 80114 1 (hardback) ISBN o 521 80507 4 (paperback) 1. Philosophy. 1. Young, Julian. 11. Haynes, Kenneth. 1. Title. 33279.447 Bs 2002 193-dcz1 2002017387 CIP 1sBN 0 521 80114 1 hardback ISBN 0 §21 80507 4 paperback“Wood” is an old name for forest. In the wood there are paths, mostly overgrown, that come to an abrupt stop where the wood is untrodden. They are called Holzwege. Each goes its separate way, though within the same forest. It often appears as if one is identical to another. But it only appears so. Woodcutters and forest keepers know these paths. They know what it means to be on a Holzweg.