Heidegger’s gelassenheit concept derives from medieval mystic Meister Eckhart

Evidence

One was ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’, which appeared in a revised form in his Holzwege (Off the Beaten Track) in 1950. There he drew on a notion borrowed from the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart: Gelassenheit, which can be translated as ‘releasement’ or ‘letting-be’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 587

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gelassenheit / ‘letting-be’ is a key Heideggerian term being introduced; its Eckhartian genealogy is the clarification worth keeping.