I don’t understand library cataloguing

I was curious to see where the library would end up shelving Circus Philosophicus. The answer is, they (and not they, but whatever central authority they consult) are shelving it as a Heidegger book! It’s right next to Pöggeler’s Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers. A most inappropriate choice, but at least that means I’ll get some accidental Heidegger browsers spilling over.

Towards Speculative Realism was put with all the “realism” books, and it’s a fairly dry crowd of ultra-sober analytic philosophy texts.

Prince of Networks, interestingly enough, is treated as a “metaphysics” book, due to the subtitle I assume. So it gets put with books by F.H. Bradley, Collingwood, Heidegger (Introduction to Metaphysics), John Wisdom, Michael Loux, etc.

Guerrilla Metaphysics, by contrast (again probably due to the subtitle) gets placed with all the phenomenology books. It’s with Don Ihde, Reinhard Grossmann, Ute Gahlings, and Len Lawlor.

Tool-Being and Heidegger Explained both go, obviously, with all the Heidegger secondary sources. Not as surprising or interesting.

The weirdest placement is obviously Circus Philosophicus. I think Heidegger does get mentioned a few times, but that book resembles something by Otto Pöggeler about as much as 120 Days of Sodom resembles something by John Caputo.