But once you have read Being and Time and hopefully been compelled by it, then the question that hangs over the text, like the sword of Damocles, is the following: how could arguably the greatest philosopher of the 20th century also have been a Nazi? What does his political commitment to National Socialism, however long or short it lasted, suggest about the nature of philosophy and its risks and dangers when stepping into the political realm? Being and Timeīeing and Time is a work of considerable length (437 pages in the German original) and legendary difficulty. The task I have set myself in this series of blogs is to provide a taste of the latter book and hopefully some motivation to read it further and study it more deeply. Indeed, to my mind, the nature and extent of Heidegger's involvement in National Socialism only becomes philosophically pertinent once one has begun to understand and feel the persuasive power of what takes place in his written work, especially Being and Time. The hugely important matter of the relation between Heidegger and politics is the topic for another series of blogs entries.
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So I was interested to come back to this book after many years and reread it.īelow you will find an introduction, summary and review with a set of notes by chapter for those that want to get into the weeds with detail! Background It was on my reading list as a student and it was one of the first books from the course that made an impact on me. Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen Review and Book NotesĪ classic architectural theory book, easy to read with some unique insights but with a couple of large flaws.Įxperiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen IntroductionĮxperiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a standard text in architectural schools and also for me when I began my studies more years ago than I care to remember. “But when we took over the farm, it was already losing money hand over fist. “We simply assumed that's what we would continue to do for the rest of our lives - carry on the family tradition and farm,” Tree says. It had been intensively farmed since World War II. Tree and Burrel inherited the land in the 1980s from Burrell’s grandparents. Related: A bold plan to slow the melt of Arctic permafrost could help reverse global warming “Going from intensive management, where you're really manipulating everything and tidying up and managing the land to the nth degree, to just sitting back and letting go is a massive mind swing.” “It is a very, very difficult thing to do,” Tree says. Isabella Tree’s recent book, " Wilding," is the story of how the land transformed after she and Burrell made this bold and heart-wrenching decision. So they began to mull over another idea: Give the land back to nature and let it take its course. But the intensive agriculture of their predecessors grew increasingly difficult and they decided that farming was no longer a viable option. When writer Isabella Tree, and her husband, Charlie Burrell, inherited an estate in West Sussex, England, they assumed they would continue to farm, as generations of family had before them. |