Heidegger in Ruins by Richard Wolin;

Author:Richard Wolin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300269130
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Earth and Soil: Heidegger and the National Socialist Politics of Space

By Bodenständigkeit, Heidegger . . . meant to convey a profoundly metaphysical relation to Earth as a place of dwelling, to the landscape as one’s indigenous home, and to language as the expression of one’s rootedness: . . . as the name for an understanding of history as destiny to which we primordially belong and through which we are appropriated by the gift-giving power of Being . . . [as] Ereignis. Only when we are fundamentally attuned to the Earth, . . . only when we are rooted in it and let this rootedness take hold of us, can we find our proper dwelling place with the Fourfold. . . . Heidegger considered Bodenständigkeit as a relationship to the Earth that acknowledged its hidden, concealed, nocturnal, and chthonic dimensions.

—Charles Bambach, Heidegger Roots

The higher compulsion of the Earth does not first emerge with the everyday and the deed, but already in the creative questioning and the world-forming power of a Volk.

[Der höhere Zwang der Erde ist nicht erst beim Alltag und der Tat, sondern schon in der schöpferischen Fragekraft und der weltbildenden Macht eines Volkes.]

—Heidegger, Überlegungen und Winke III, GA 94

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