Auction Date:2010 Jan 13 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS in German, signed “M. Heidegger,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 6 x 8.25, December 17, 1935. Lengthy letter to his student Magda Stomps, a longtime friend of Heidegger and his wife Elfriede. In part: “The older students are slowly disappearing, and younger ones do not seem to be forthcoming. Perhaps philosophy will now have to leave center stage for a while, and that won’t matter if it continues to grow in silence. Of course, the classes used to be easier and more productive, in the days when one didn’t have to drill every trifle again and again and could take much previous knowledge for granted. The youngest students make an excellent impression, but they don’t stay long enough if the other subjects are not properly represented. The Classics are still in disorder here. I must confess that the immediate occasion for this letter is not philosophy but – the matter of butter. Our eldest son has now joined us for three weeks during his holiday – he was ill and strongly requires invigoration in general. I therefore ask you to send us, if possible, two pounds of butter to our Todtnauberg cottage around Christmas.”
The Dutch philosopher Magda A. H. Stomps, who specialized in the phenomenology of religion, earned her doctorate in 1935 under Heidegger with a thesis on “The Anthropology of Martin Luther,” describing the reformer’s anthropology within the categories of existential philosophy. She later taught at Zutphen in Gelderland. She moved to Argentina in 1952 (probably due to the intermediation of Hans-Georg Gadamer), joining Heidegger’s student Carlos Astrada at the University of Buenos Aires.
A light spot to signature, and a bit of scattered light foxing, otherwise fine condition.
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5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
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