Currently struggling with Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (From Ereignis), this essay reminded me - entrenched as I am - that Heidegger was a very real and very troubling man. Reading de la Durantaye's article, I was also struck by the insightful clarity of his description of his own journey in search of Heidegger's famous Black Forest hut, interwoven with anecdotal and deep philosophical understanding of the "philosopher king's" work.
I was reading Poetry Language Thought in a cafe one late morning recently, when a very bored and half drunk man (who, guaranteed, cared more about talking to any female who would give him thirty seconds than he cared about Martin Heidegger) asked me what Heidegger's "basic philosophy" was. I responded curtly that he "doesn't have one." Glad to have shaken the man, I was nevertheless troubled by my very real inability to explain what it is that keeps me reading. This essay helps.
For Heidegger the fox, "the ontological suit," and punishable writing:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/durantaye.php
