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Dwelling in Heidegger

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Dwelling concerns inhabiting and gathering a place, beyond residence alone. The meaning of dwelling does not settle questions of housing, access or engineering.

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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 11 of 12
What does it mean to dwell?
Heidegger describes how a bridge gathers a place, and Julian Young interprets his idea of dwelling. Why does neither a place’s meaning nor its power to gather people decide who should have access to it?

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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits
Begin with familiar encounters and follow Heidegger’s questions about being, a finite life, truth, art, dwelling and technology. Examine what the arguments explain, what they leave open and how they fare under political and ethical criticism.