January 26, 2007
'Heidegger's Hut'
Stifling and stuffy was Martin Heidegger's verdict on academic life in the mid-1920s. "I have no desire to spend my time with University professors," he wrote to Karl Jaspers. Heidegger much preferred his hut.
Die Hütte, as the philosopher (1889-1976) indeed called it, was completed in 1922 in the Black Forest mountains of southern Germany, above the village of Todtnauberg. If never Heidegger's only residence, it became his favored retreat from academe and the place where he
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