Feeling at Home
Feeling at Home

Reflections on a Theme in Human Existence

Summary/Abstract: This essay is about the significance of the body for dwelling. Considering the_body implies considering a concrete body, i.e. asking for the experiences embedded in it. Consequently, the body in consideration is, for example, gendered. The topic of dwelling takes Martin Heidegger’s work on the hand as_the point of departure and uses philosophical anthropology and Jacques Derrida’s comments on Heidegger as_inspiration to suggest that the_relationship between the hand and thinking implies asking whose hands build places of dwelling. When dwelling is related to the body, we must also consider what concrete body is involved in building and dwelling.

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