Heidegger and the other thinking: a reading on What is called thinking? , as the title suggests, seeks to follow some of the pathways proposed by the philosopher in this central writing of his work, still unpublished in Portuguese. The studied book consists of two courses taught by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg, in the years of 1951 and 1952. The first course concerns the issue of representational thinking and delimits the end of metaphysics in presenting the absolutism of the will of power and the temporality, present respectively in Friedrich Nietzsche s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Eternal Recurrence of the Same. The second course, to which this research focuses with more emphasis, concerns Parmenides and the dawn of the Western thought. Heidegger envisions in the moment prior to the advent of metaphysics signs of the other thinking , and through the analysis of the fragment VI of Parmenides’ poem On Nature, the philosopher leads us to the primordial character of what was then considered thinking.