"Wood Paths" is Martin Heidegger's most famous book after "Being and Time." It includes the "The Origin of the Work of Art" essay, which is one of the foundational texts of 20th-century aesthetics. Here, as in the other essays of this volume from 1936 to 1946 ("The Age of the World Picture" and Heidegger's interpretations of Hegel, Nietzsche, Anaximander, Rilke, and Hölderlin), individual questions are explored within the context of the historical thinking of being. These "Wood Paths" depart from the well-trodden path of metaphysics and lead out into the open. Anyone wishing to understand Heidegger's thinking on the history of being after the "turn" will rely on this volume. The collection includes the following essays: The Origin of the Work of Art (1935/36), The Age of the World Picture (1938), Hegel's Concept of Experience (1942/43), Nietzsche's Statement "God is Dead" (1943), and Why Poets? (1946).