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Homelessness Countering the Destruction of Home: A Return to Sensuous Communication

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Heidegger’s description of dwelling shows a kind of being home wherein the constituents of home interact through relations characterized by sensuous communication: “blossoming and fruiting, spreading out in rock and water … the wandering glitter of the stars, the year’s seasons and their changes, the light and dusk of day” all unfolding in sensuous array. In this sensuous communication the constituents care for one another and thereby comprise a community. However, a dampening occurs where the constituents of home become objects of utility. Home becomes a factory instead of a dwelling place. One way to counter this destruction of the home is through voluntary homeless journeys, pilgrimages wherein the healing of the home takes place. When one is homeless, one ceases to be master. This essay will explore the interrelationships between home and homelessness, home and factory, sensuous communication and the dampening of that communication, and the journey of building a virtuous home.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Thing,” Poetry, Language, Thought, Trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Perennial Library, 1971) 178–179.

  2. 2.

    Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, Trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Perennial Library, 1971) 149.

  3. 3.

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Nature, Trans. Robert Vallier, (Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1995) 209.

  4. 4.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 151.

  5. 5.

    Lance Strate, “A Media Ecology Review,” Communication Research Trends Vol 23, no. 2 (2004): 7.

  6. 6.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 159.

  7. 7.

    Victor and Edith Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1978), 223.

  8. 8.

    Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008) 91.

  9. 9.

    Marion, The Visible and the Revealed, 96.

  10. 10.

    Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle and Rachel Bowlby, Of Hospitality (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000) 25.

  11. 11.

    Turner and Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, 95.

  12. 12.

    Turner and Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, 95.

  13. 13.

    Gary Paul Nabhan, Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: an American Naturalist in Italy (New York: Penguin Books, 1993) 103.

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    Ecoplaces are encompassed by larger ecoregions. An ecoregion is defined as “relatively large units of land conitaining a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species, with boundaries that approximate the original extent of natural communities prior to major land-use change” (Olson et al., 2001:933)

  15. 15.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 147.

  16. 16.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 147.

  17. 17.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 149.

  18. 18.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 150.

  19. 19.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, Trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper, 1977) 42.

  20. 20.

    Jean-Luc Marion, In Excess: Studies in Saturated Phenomena, Trans. Robyn Horner and Vincent Berraud (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002) 31.

  21. 21.

    Jean-Luc Marion, In Excess: Studies in Saturated Phenomena, 31.

  22. 22.

    Jean-Luc Marion, In Excess: Studies in Saturated Phenomena, 34.

  23. 23.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 15.

  24. 24.

    Chuang Tzu, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, Trans. Burton Watson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1968) 134.

  25. 25.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Trans. John Wilkinson (New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1967) 155.

  26. 26.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 159.

  27. 27.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, Ed. Sean Hand (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 1989) 83.

  28. 28.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 324.

  29. 29.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 325.

  30. 30.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 4.

  31. 31.

    Giambattista Vico, (1948) The New Science of Giambattista Vico, Trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1948) 11.

  32. 32.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 14.

  33. 33.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 14.

  34. 34.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, xxv).

  35. 35.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 15.

  36. 36.

    Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967) 239.

  37. 37.

    Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 14–15.

  38. 38.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 325.

  39. 39.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, 51.

  40. 40.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, 70.

  41. 41.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, 83.

  42. 42.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 147; Martin Heidegger, “The Turning.” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, 42.

  43. 43.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 221.

  44. 44.

    Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 221.

  45. 45.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, 50.

  46. 46.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, 50–51.

  47. 47.

    Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader, 66.

  48. 48.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012) 8.

  49. 49.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 9.

  50. 50.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 10.

  51. 51.

    Martin Buber, I and Thou, 2nd Edition Scribner Library (New York: Scribner, 1958) 56.

  52. 52.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 12.

  53. 53.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 17.

  54. 54.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 17.

  55. 55.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 19.

  56. 56.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 19.

  57. 57.

    Kip Redick, “Profane Experience and Sacred Encounter: Journeys to Disney and the Camino De Santiago,” Environment, Space Place, Vol. 5, Issue 1 2013 Spring, 60.

  58. 58.

    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 155.

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    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 324.

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    Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 325.

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    Martin Buber, I and Thou, 2nd Edition Scribner Library, 89.

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    Martin Buber, I and Thou, 2nd Edition Scribner Library, 89.

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    Martin Buber, I and Thou, 2nd Edition Scribner Library, 89.

  64. 64.

    Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas A Carlson and David Tracy, God Without Being: Hors-Texte, 2nd Edition, 20.

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Redick, K. (2022). Homelessness Countering the Destruction of Home: A Return to Sensuous Communication. In: Murungi, J., Ardito, L. (eds) Home - Lived Experiences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70392-9_11

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