Heidegger’s Hut

The book that is. Graham gives it a good review, and I’m now interested enough to take a look at it. I picked it up in a bookstore a few months ago (or was it at a conference?) read the intro and flipped through the pictures: there’s Heidegger putting on his boots! Here’s Elfride serving dinner! Now, I should say that the book offers a deeply philosophical take on Heidegger’s Hut from a thinking of the link between place and thought, but certainly many of the readers of it are more interested (I would assume) in having a coffee table book that’s more about Heidegger kitsch than everything that Graham notes. (Also, I had particular people in mind with that post.) But, so as not to be seeming with my last post to bury a good book by simply going on about Heidegger kitsch: go read the book!

But yes, I remember being in Freiburg and the memory of people leading me to the lecture hall he taught in and so on struck me as something I wouldn’t find acceptable if someone was doing it for a philosopher I had read far less. And surely, too, we need far more coffee table books on philosophy, not less…