Humanism and the Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: rethinking the anthropologos.

symploke, January, 2005 by Spanos, William V.

But if man is to find his way once again into the nearness of Being he must first learn to exist in the nameless. In the same way he must recognize the seductions of the public realm as well as the importance of the private. Before he speaks man must first let himself be claimed again by Being, taking the risk that under this claim he will seldom have much to say. Only thus will the preciousness of its essence be once more bestowed upon the word, and upon man a home for dwelling in the truth of Being.

--Martin Heidegger (1)

It is even part of my good fortune not to be a house-owner, Nietzsche already wrote in the Gay Science. Today we should have to add: it is part of morality not to be at home in one's home.

--Theodor Adomo (2)

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