Heidegger’s philosophy attracted interest long after intellectual fashions moved past Sartre

Evidence

Heidegger seems to have been an enigma to her, as he was to many others. No doubt she was intrigued by him as a person; many of her novels revolve around charismatic, sometimes dangerous guru types. More importantly, his philosophy kept her attention long after she had turned away from Sartre. She was particularly taken by the Heideggerian image of the mind as a clearing in the forest, which she found beautiful (as do I). — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 994

Categorization

• DEFINE: The clearing-in-the-forest (Lichtung) image is a key Heidegger concept worth defining explicitly.
• XREF: The Heideggerian clearing resonates with the silence-as-clearing theme from One Square Inch of Silence — a space where something can appear. — connects to: Heidegger’s influence extended even to anti-humanist Marxism like Althusser — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 297; Heidegger’s charisma drew older philosophers into intense collaboration — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 185; Heidegger’s influence, not Jaspers’s, dominated postwar European philosophy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 616 (+1 more)