Heidegger

Cologne 31-May-2007

Mathias W schrieb Mon, 28 May 2007 23:01:52 -0400 (EDT):

> Hi out there,
>
> I’m liking this list. I was wondering if anyone out
> there knew much about Heidegger’s personal habits?
> Things that Nietzsche would have loved to learn, for
> instance, about his favorite thinkers.
>
> Like what he tended to eat (both in the city and
> blackforest), whether he was a drinker, what his
> exercise regime was like, how his diet varied over
> this life or over the seasons, whether he ever engaged
> in asceticisms or fasting, what his beliefs about diet
> and the constitution might have been. Did he eat white
> bread or only dark rye, and other such quirky things?
> What was his philosophy of nutrition?
>
> Other than bread and wine in the fourfold, the only
> other reference to food I found is when he thanks Boss
> for a gift of Swiss chocolate, calling it a most
> “stimulating gift.” So Heidegger liked chocolate.
> Did he eat lots of it?
>
> And then the larger question of personal habits, which
> I haven’t found much.
>
> His students on long walks in the Black Forest must
> have had occasion to ask him how he ate and what his
> habits where and how they were conducive or not to
> thinking, or some such question.
>
> Maybe he was strategic about eating based on what he
> wanted to think about and how, wouldn’t that be a
> find.
>
> I can’t make out from his texts whether he is well and
> consistently fed, or on what. Maybe on pure thinking.
>
> Does anyone have any info or sources on this?
>
> Thanks, Mathias
>

An interesting source for Heidegger’s life habits is “Mein liebes
Seelchen — Briefe Martin Heideggers an seine Frau Elfride 1915-1970″
ed. Gertrud Heidegger, DVA Munich 2005

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