some Heidegger to look forward to

Although many of the recent releases from the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe are bottom-of-the-barrel material that would never have been published if someone else had written them, I’m greatly looking forward to ordering and reading the Heidegger-Rudolf Bultmann Correspondence, published not long ago.

You wouldn’t necessarily expect Heidegger to be a top-notch letter writer, but he is. The letters to his wife are gems even in their coldest moments, and I also like the exchange with Heinrich Rickert.

The correspondence with Elisabeth Blochmann probably puts Heidegger in the worst light, while the exchange with Imma von Bodmershof (ex-fiancée of the deceased Hölderlin scholar Norbert von Hellingrath) tends to degenerate into affected Hellingrath worship.