Dinge der Erde. In margine alla nozione di "cosa" ne L'origine dell’opera d’arte di Heidegger

The article aims at analyzing the notion of thing in Heidegger’s 1936/37 essay The Origin of the Work of Art. Starting from the basic junctions of Heidegger’s critical exam of everyday and the traditional experience of things, the article shows to what extent Heidegger’s “own” answer to the question concerning the thing represents, in the essay just mentioned, a turning point along the path that leads from Being and time (1927) to the remarkable conference The Thing (1949).