Wolfram Eilenberger on Heidegger & ecology

Looking back from the present day, we can even see Heidegger’s influence on the postwar German ecological movement. Wholeness, environmental consciousness, the critique of technology, contact with nature — even in 1919, all these were core motifs of Heidegger’s thought. In its appeal to the authentic and the genuine in all areas of life it also emphatically calls for an organic rootedness and anchoring of the self in an environment experienced as one’s own, meaning: one’s home, one’s own landscape, with its traditions, rituals, dialects, and everything else that belongs to it. We can be completely authentic only where our roots are, in our environment.

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