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Asking the question of being is one of the essential and fundamental conditions for the awakening of spirit and hence for an originary world of historical Dasein. It is indispensable if the peril of world-darkening [Weltverdüsterung] is to be forestalled and if our Volk at the center of the West is to take on its historical mission.
Asking the question of being is one of the essential and fundamental conditions for the awakening of spirit and hence for an originary world of historical Dasein. It is indispensable if the peril of world-darkening [Weltverdüsterung] is to be forestalled and if our Volk at the center of the West is to take on its historical mission.
Approximate author period: c. 1932 AD · modern
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- Martin Heidegger
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- Approximate author period: c. 1932 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Martin Heidegger: life dates 1889 to 1976. Wikidata Q48301, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48301 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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