Gelassenheit

The ordinary German word Gelassenheit indeed refers to serenity, and Heidegger does not want us to ignore that meaning.

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The ordinary German word Gelassenheit indeed refers to serenity, and Heidegger does not want us to ignore that meaning.

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I think they must be like the Turks in manner, as they have all the eastern gentlemanly 'Gelassenheit' (ease) and politeness, and no eastern 'Geschmeidigkeit' (obsequiousness), and no idea of Baksheesh; withal frugal, industrious, and money-making, to an astonishing degree.

Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

Martin Heidegger made it during one of the unpublished lectures from the cycle of four talks given in Bremen on technology in 1949, but it is quoted in the book by Wolfgang Schirmacher, Technik und Gelassenheit: Agriculture is now a mechanized food industry.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009

That is a sense of Gelassenheit similar to the Amish usage, here of giving one's self up to the Volk, and not the Gelassenheit Heidegger used in his later writings.

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In the post, the term communal Gelassenheit is used.

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Gelassenheit is the goal - a yielding to the will of the community.

Steven Denlinger: Coming to Los Angeles: Labyrinth 2008

Sylvia Plath, bees, blonds, and the privileged to Gelassenheit.

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I was going contrary to the community principle of Gelassenheit - a yielding to the will of God as defined by the community.

Steven Denlinger: Coming to Los Angeles: Labyrinth 2008

Sylvia Plath, bees, blonds, and the privileged to Gelassenheit.

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