What Is Metaphysics?"What Is Metaphysics?" is a lecture by the philosopher Martin Heidegger, first presented to the faculties of the University of Freiburg on July 24, 1929, as inaugural address.English translations R.F.C. Hull and Alan Crick in 1949, in Existence and Being, edited by Werner Brock, pp. 325–349 David Krell, in Basic Writings New York: Harper and Row, pp. 93–110 Miles Groth, "What Is Metaphysics?"