First published in 1950, Holzwege is the first major collection of Heidegger’s essays published after the war. The volume begins with the final version of lectures given in 1935/36 on the “Origin of the Work of Art,” the 1938 lecture on the scientific picture of the modern world (genitivus appositivus) in “Age of the World- Picture,” the 1942 essay on “Hegel’s Concept of Experience,” the examination of nihilism in the context of Nietzsche’s thought in the 1943 lecture “Nietzsche’s Word: God is Dead,” and two essays from 1946: an interpretation of Rilke’s poetry in “Why Poets” and Heidegger’s most extensive treatment of the first of the three initiators of Western thinking in “Anaximander’s Saying.”