lowbrow Heidegger

From the published letter of Martin Heidegger to Hannah Arendt, May 4, 1950

Andrew Shields English transl: "... the woman is hidden in the girl, the girl in the woman. And the essential thing is: this concealment itself growing bright."

The eroticism of Heidegger on concealment and Ereignis could not be clearer: it is addressed to his "saucy wood nymph".

He here speaks of "Time gathered in to the fourth dimension of intimacy, as if we had stepped directly out of eternity -- and returned into it."  In merely alluding to the past intimacy he is able to validate his early insight on the occasion of her first entering his office: "only then do I know that life is history." [Mar 21, 1925]

These need to be set side-by-side with the originals and with other of his pronouncements.