The lecture "The End of Philosophy and the Task for Thinking" was read in French in Paris (1964). The essay first appeared in a French translation by Jean Beaufret and François Fédier, in Kierkegaard vivant (Paris: Gallimard 1966), marking the culmination of that which, from the 1940s through the 1960s, was perceived (especially in France) as the "séisme heideggerien."¹ "Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denkens" appeared only in 1969, in the volume Zur Sache des Denkens² — 42 years after Being and Time and 42 years ago.³