ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on the notion of home and homelessness, specifically through the thoughts of Heidegger. Heidegger often uses terms of homelessness in his analysis of Dasein, the human being. It analyzes the different ways in which we are lost, according to Heidegger. It is tempting to think that we can overcome the oblivion of being and become authentic by overcoming our homelessness. Heidegger is the philosopher of homelessness and homecoming. The lack of knowledge of our environment, of the places in which we live, results in a lack of knowledge of ourselves. Heidegger criticizes contemporary Dasein for constantly occupying itself with the beings that surround it, within which one could say Dasein forgets itself. In Modern science, metaphysics, and mathematics, Heidegger argues through the notion of the mathematical, that with the introduction of natural laws that are external to natural objects, a notion of violence the very idea that we can do something violent to nature has disappeared.
