Stay and Homelessness. A Preview of “Political Issues” in and from Heidegger

Abstract

This paper presents a synthetic exposition of a previous element to the political questions in Heidegger's work that criticizes, implicitly, the use of his work to defend proposals that try to found communities in our time, the internal limits (to Heidegger's own approach) of the Heideggerian attempts to propose a foundation of this type (either under the name of state, community, people, etc.) and of those similar attempts that do not take into consideration this author. The previous element is the problem of the “homeland” (die Heimat) and its constitution of man's “stay” (der Aufenthalt) and the “homelessness” (die Heimatlosigkeit) inherent in the modern “civil state” and modern “civil society”.