Heidegger - Home, Tradition and Readiness in the 'Untergang'

According to our human experience and history, at least as far as I see it, I know that everything essential and everything great originated from the fact that man had a home and was rooted in tradition.  Present-day literature, for example, is predominantly destructive...

philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world.  This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.  Only a god can save us.  The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poetizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the Untergang, in the downfall; for in the face of the god who is absent, we founder.


M. Heidegger. Der Spiegel.  1976.




catalog