Something you're not likely to see from me again soon

[Gordon Fitch]

Justin Schwartz:
> You should have learned German anyway: Heidegger is actually beautiful in 
> German. The comparison to Habermas' turgid, social-sciency prose is 
> insulting to a writer is is the most poetic of German philosophers of the 
> last century. I do not consider myself a Heideggerian of any sort, but I do 
> think the old Nazi creep has a lot to offer, although I frankly haven't 
> studied his work for a decade. You can get a lot of the same thing from 
> Lukacs as far as romantic anticapitalism goes; Lucian Goldman has a little 
> book on this. --jks

So maybe Heidegger should be considered as a poet _rather_than_ a philosopher.
But in that case, Rilke would be the reason to learn German.