Being and Time’s publication was a theatrical, near-ceremonial event among Heidegger’s students

Evidence

His student Hermann Mörchen remembered how Heidegger arrived at one of their seminars, and ‘wordlessly, expectantly, like a child showing off his favourite toy, produced a galley-proof sheet straight from the printer’. It was the title page of his masterpiece, Being and Time — with that great opening call to amazement, followed by pages of strange text that could not be mistaken for anything written by any other philosopher, old or new. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 194

Categorization

• CANDY: A charming anecdote about the excited, childlike unveiling of the galley proof of Being and Time.
• XREF: connects to: Heidegger staged his lectures as controlled theatre and derided spontaneous discussion — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 191; Heidegger reanimated past philosophers so students felt thinking itself had revived — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 193; Heidegger’s 1929 lecture could induce near-ecstatic states in listeners. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 249 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger staged his lectures as controlled theatre and derided spontaneous discussion #corroborates (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 191
• Heidegger’s 1929 lecture could induce near-ecstatic states in listeners. #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 249
• Heidegger reanimated past philosophers so students felt thinking itself had revived #corroborates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 193