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Grace Notes: Layering Small Grace Upon Small Grace
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Muck, Terry C. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Jung had his round stone house and Thoreau his cabin on Walden Pond. Heidegger had a hut. If Jung's stone house reflected (and excised?) his psychological demons, and Thoreau's cabin served as an ideological icon, Heidegger's hut created the physical conditions under which he thought (and wrote) best. Heidegger had die Hutte built in summer 1922. He retreated there often over the next five decades, using the 3-room, 6 by 7 meter wood structure as a writing place where his most famous philosophical texts came into being. Die Hutte gave Heidegger three things: (1) A centering datum, the one real thing that existed above all others-his retreat house in the Black Forest mountains of Bavaria. It was an anchor in life's flux. (2) A set of ready made categories, metaphors, and analogues that best expressed his philosophical thought. He discovered these categories in the changes of the seasons, the unpredictable, sometimes violent weather, the enduring cycle of night and day, the life-giving water from his constantly flowing spring; (3) Hope. He saw his hut as somehow unsullied by city life, a life that is less authentic because of its artificial overlay of roles and expectations and technological tropes. The hut, shorn of most of these things, offered him the potential freedom, the relative human freedom that is the only seedbed for creative thought. To be sure, each of these three "blessings" came to be abused. His localism (provincialism) was used by the Nazis (at first aided by Heidegger himself) as a rationale for German ethnocentrism. His love of nature displayed some of |
| Starting Page | 10 |
| Ending Page | 10 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 62 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=asburyjournal |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
