Heidegger's hut

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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. Over the years, Heidegger worked on many of his most famous writings in "die Hutte," from his early lectures to his last enigmatic texts. 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 Heidegger's troubling involvement with the Nazi regime in the early 1930s; 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."