Reading Heidegger

Via Posthegemony and Quick Study:

Shoes and Boots

Vincent Van Gogh, "Peasant Shoes," 1886.

Thaier al-Sudani (Reuters), "The boots of a soldier killed in the bomb attack on Baghdad's Sarafiya Bridge on Thursday stand near the entrance to a hospital," April 13, 2007.

Van Gogh's painting is the disclosure of what the equipment, the pair of peasant shoes, is in truth. ... We say "truth" and think little enough in using this word.
– Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art"

The dead soldier's boots are the disclosure of another truth.