{"id":316,"date":"2006-11-29T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2006-11-29T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:22:00","slug":"heideggers-hutte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/heideggers-hutte\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidegger's H\u00fctte"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fascinating book in the mail yesterday from MIT press: Adam Sharr’s monograph Heidegger’s Hut<\/a> (foreword by Simon Sadler; prologue by Andrew Benjamin). I have long quarrelled with myself, commentators & other translators if in Paul Celan’s poem “Todtnauberg”, the German “in der \/ H\u00fctte” should be translated as “in the \/ hut” & have myself preferred to keep the German word “H\u00fctte” which would, I believe, link the poem more directly to Heidegger for one, and bring over a load of meaning that the Eglish word “hut” does not carry in this specific context. In the case of Sharr’s book this is of course not a problem, though I still can’t think of the place as a “hut” which brings to mind other types of architectural constructs. Be that as it may, as Sadler suggests in his forewrod, “[t]his 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.” Of course he wrote many other texts in that place too \u2014 as well as using it in 1933\/34 for nazi indoctrination sessions. No doubt a place heavily laden with psychic energy-twists, even though a couple years ago I had, out of the blue, two emails from an elderly lady who accused both Celan and me of turning Todtnauberg into a nasty dark place when in fact, she who had lived close by there all her life, knew that it was indeed a peerfectly idyllic place.<\/p>\n

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Here is the original blurb I wrote for the book, on whose backcover you can find a shortened version:<\/span><\/div>\n


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Here is a fascinating backdoor entry into Heidegger\u2019s (in)famous hut \u2014 that mythologically and ontologically so easily over-invested dwelling place in the Black Forest mountains of Southern Germany \u2014 from its architectural ground plan and local wood shingles to the loftier reaches of the philosopher\u2019s thought. Author-architect Adam Sharr gives us no fawning laudatio<\/i>, but a revealing, nonpartisan, demythologizing reflection on the relation between place and thought. In the process he casts Heidegger\u2019s reflection on building, dwelling, and thinking into a new, cooler, and wider light \u2014 reaching beyond its specific locale to questions of provincialism versus cosmopolitism, localism of sustainability versus global technological society, authenticity versus agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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