ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the relation between philosophical method and the particular context of the age of global warming is reflected upon. The point of departure will be found in the question about human Dasein’s place on Earth, which raises the preliminary question about Dasein’s philosophical access to the Earth. The Earth is conceptualized as the ontic-ontological condition for the possibility of Dasein’s being-in-the-world. The hypothesis will be defended that Heidegger’s conceptualization of Earth remains underdeveloped. This will turn out to be due to the ontocentrism of his philosophical method. Subsequently, it will be shown that Earth is the ontic-ontological origin of the Heideggerian strife between Earth and world. The question about human Dasein’s place on Earth in the age of global warming leads to reflections on the philosophical method to get access to the Earth, while the question about the method of philosophy helps to articulate a question of Earth after Heidegger. The chapter will end with a methodological reflection on a positive ontological concept of the materiality of Earth as uncorrelated being.
