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Heidegger's Hut (Paperback)
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Heidegger's Hut (Paperback)
Series: Heidegger's Hut
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The intense relationship between philosopher Martin Heidegger and
his cabin in the Black Forest: the first substantial account of
"die Hutte" and its influence on Heidegger's life and work. "This
is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down,
the justification for which is that the hut was the setting in
which Martin Heidegger wrote phenomenological texts that became
touchstones for late-twentieth-century architectural theory." -from
the foreword by Simon Sadler Beginning in the summer of 1922,
philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) occupied a small,
three-room cabin in the Black Forest Mountains of southern Germany.
He called it "die Hutte" ("the hut"). Over the years, Heidegger
worked on many of his most famous writings in this cabin, from his
early lectures to his last enigmatic texts. He claimed an
intellectual and emotional intimacy with the building and its
surroundings, and even suggested that the landscape expressed
itself through him, almost without agency. In Heidegger's Hut, Adam
Sharr explores this intense relationship of thought, place, and
person. Heidegger's mountain hut has been an object of fascination
for many, including architects interested in his writings about
"dwelling" and "place." Sharr's account-the first substantive
investigation of the building and Heidegger's life there-reminds us
that, in approaching Heidegger's writings, it is important to
consider the circumstances in which the philosopher, as he himself
said, felt "transported" into the work's "own rhythm." Indeed,
Heidegger's apparent abdication of agency and tendency toward
romanticism seem especially significant in light of his troubling
involvement with the Nazi regime in the early 1930s. Sharr draws on
original research, including interviews with Heidegger's relatives,
as well as on written accounts of the hut by Heidegger and his
visitors. The book's evocative photographs include scenic and
architectural views taken by the author and many remarkable images
of a septuagenarian Heidegger in the hut taken by the
photojournalist Digne Meller-Markovicz. There are many ways to
interpret Heidegger's hut-as the site of heroic confrontation
between philosopher and existence; as the petit bourgeois escape of
a misguided romantic; as a place overshadowed by fascism; or as an
entirely unremarkable little building. Heidegger's Hut does not
argue for any one reading, but guides readers toward their own
possible interpretations of the importance of "die Hutte."
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