Martin Heidegger At His Freiburg House

Here, Heidegger is seen with friends and his wife Enfride at the rear of his Freiburg home that was specially built after he received the philosophy chair at the Univesity of Freiburg (1927)... the house was constructed the same year and Heidegger divided time between the house and the famous cabin in Todtnauberg (see: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K-0sf7PfXM' for footage of the cabin) ... in a unique 2003 essay, "The professor's house: Martin Heidegger's house at Freiburg-im-Breisgau," University of Cardiff lecturer Adam Sharr (Welsh School of Architecture) offered the following philosophical appraisal:

"... Heidegger's house is somewhat alien to Heidegger's writing. It is more 'aesthetic' than 'phenomenological', more attentive to the visual qualities of furniture and axial views than to emotion and experience. The house is rooted in suburban affectation and supportive of conventional social structures. It is also acceptant of technological comforts and their mediation of immediate experience of the world.

Respective roles of house and hut (the Todtnauberg cabin) in the philosopher's life seem to hint at two sides to Heidegger's personality. One side, manifested physically in the house, was civic and somewhat affected. Here, Heidegger was professor, father and head of the family. He seems to have enjoyed this situation, at least insofar as it admitted a measure of hubris. This milieu was somewhat necessary to support the other side, manifested in the hut. There, Heidegger's life was solitary by preference. He perceived it as simpler and more honest, attuned to emotion and experience. He favored this second situation intellectually, finding it vital and sustaining. Importantly, though, Heidegger neither followed one of these lives without the other."

Heidegger lived in the Freiburg house from 1928-1971...

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