ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on Nietzsche, the wandering philosopher introduce the necessity as well as complexities of the idea of wandering, of becoming nomadic in a philosophical sense, through Nietzsche. It will become clear that we are, in fact, dealing with two forms of homelessness: the common way of being lost in the herd is a form of homelessness that is rooted in a strong attachment. The book also focuses on, Lost at home, Heidegger and the phenomenologists on being-in-the-world, continues the theme of wandering, specifically through notions of homelessness. For both Heidegger and Nietzsche language is an important element that forms our world, something on which we rest, or under which we take cover. The book explains Walking and thinking mountains: Dgen, Leopold, and the Tlingit, discusses a few non-Western approaches to place.
