Planetarization and Heimatlosigkeit, Part 1

Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” in Pathmarks, ed. W. McNeill, trans. F.A. Capuzzi (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 258.

Françoise Dastur, “L’Europe et ses philosophes: Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain 104, no. 1 (2006): 8.

Novalis, Notes for a Romantic Encyclopedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon, ed., trans. D. W. Wood (SUNY Press, 2007), 155.

Martin Heidegger, “The Pathway,” trans. T. F. O’Meara and T. Sheehan, in Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker, ed. T. Sheehan (Precedent, 1981), 69.

Heidegger, “The Pathway,” 70.

Julian Young, “Heidegger’s Heimat,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19, no. 2 (2011): 285.

Cited in Martin Heidegger, “Language in the Poem: A Discussion on George Trakl’s Poetic Art,” in On the Way to Language, trans. P. D. Hertz (Harper & Row, 1971), 198.

See Michiko Yusa, Zen & Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002), 243.

Nishitani wrote about this experience in a short article published in a magazine thirty-three years after this meal. The article bears the title “The Experience of Eating Rice” (飯を喰った經驗). It was later republished in the collected work of Nishitani. See Keiji Nishitani, “飯を喰った經驗,” in NKC 20 (西谷啓治著作集) (Shobunsha, 1990).

James Heisig, Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001). See also Nishitani, “The Experience of Eating Rice,” 197: “强ひて言へば絶對的な旨さである。”

Nishitani, “The Experience of Eating Rice,” 197: “舌の上では なく全身で感ずる 旨さである。”

In his lecture course on Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister,” Heidegger reintroduces the term unheimisch, which is now much less used than unheimlich in German. Heidegger wants to reassociate the meaning of unheimisch (unhomely, or not being at home) with unheimlich (uncanny, strangeness). See Martin Heidegger, Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister” (Indiana University Press, 1996); Hölderlins Hymne »Der Ister« GA 53 (Vittorio Klostermann, 1993).

See Nishitani’s talk “My View on ‘Overcoming Modernity’” (「近代の超克」私論) in Overcoming Modernity (近代の超克), ed. Tetsutarō Kawakami and Yoshimi Takeuchi (Fuzambo, 1979).

Keiji Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism, trans. G. Parkes with S. Aihara (SUNY Press, 1990), 179.

Martin Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture,” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. W. Lovitt (Harper and Row, 1977), 153. “‘Americanism’ is itself something European. It is an as-yet uncomprehended variety of the gigantic, and the gigantic itself is still inchoate, still not yet capable of being understood as the product of the full and complete metaphysical essence of modernity. The American interpretation of Americanism by means of pragmatism still remains outside the metaphysical realm.” In this sense, Americanism is no different from Sovietism, as announced by Heidegger in Introduction to Metaphysics as follows: “This Europe, in its ruinous blindness forever on the point of cutting its own throat, lies today in a great pincers, squeezed between Russia on one side and America on the other. From a metaphysical point of view, Russia and America are the same; the same dreary technological frenzy, the same unrestricted organization of the average man.” Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. R. Mannheim (Anchor, 1961), 38–39.

Rainer Maria Rilke to Witold Hulewicz, November 13, 1925, Briefe in Zwei Bänden (Insel Verlag, 2 vols., 1950), vol. 2, 376–77; quoted in Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought (Harper and Row, 1971), 110–11.

Gotthard Günther, “Heidegger und die Weltgeschichte des Nichts,” in Nachdenken über Heidegger: eine Bestandsaufnahme, ed. U. Guzzoni (Gerstenberg, 1980), 83.

Heidegger, “What are Poets For?,” 115.

See Karl Löwith, “Der europäische Nihilismus: Betrachtungen zur geistigen Vorgeschichte des europäischen Krieges,” in Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschehen: Zur Kritik der Geschichtsphilosophie (J. B. Metzlersche, 1983), 497.

Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?, trans. F. D. Wiieck and J. G. Gray (Harper & Row, 1968), 21.

For example, in the work of the conspiracy theorist and white nationalist Renaud Camus.