Heidegger, M. (2008). Building dwelling thinking. In D. F.
Krell (ed). Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings. New York: Harper Perennial Modern
Thought Pp. 343-364.
Building Dwelling Thinking
We attain to Dwelling
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We seem to need to build before we dwell.
Ø
Not all buildings are dwellings.
o
However, all buildings are under the domain of
dwelling.
o
They house man.
o
All building serve dwelling.
Ø
Dwelling presides over building.
Ø
Dwelling and building are two separate things.
Language is the authority to setting standards.
Ø
Language tells the nature of a thing.
Ø
Language is the master of man.
o
Although it is perceived as the other way
around.
To build is to dwell comes from language when to build meant
“to dwell.”
“to dwell.”
It gives us insights to how we think about dwelling.
Ø
It is a thing we do.
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We do something at a place relative to time.
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We work here, we work there.
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A sense of time is associated with dwelling.
To be human means to dwell on Earth.
Ø
To build was also associated with to cherish, to
protect, to till the soil.
Ø
The activities of cultivation and construction.
*** Exploration as cultivating – to Dwell as cultivation ***
Language retracts meaning and falls into silence.
Ø
What is silent with building is:
o
Building is dwelling.
o
Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on
earth.
o
Building and dwelling unfold into cultivation
and construction.
We build because we dwell.
To dwell is:
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To be at peace.
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To keep things free within their nature.
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To free the sphere of influence.
Four Primal forces that unconceal as one:
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Earth: Serving heaven.
o
The material in its physical sense
o
Provider, nurturer
o
Present, but the material recedes.
Ø
Sky: Vaulting path of the sun, moon and stars
o
Sun, moon and stars
o
Seasons,
o
Light and dark.
o
A reflection of the beyond.
Ø
Divinities: Messengers of the godheads.
o
A poetic fiction.
o
An anonymous creator and provider
o
A concealed presence in everything around us.
o
That which allows being, or dwelling
Ø
Mortals: Human beings
o
Man is capable of death.
Mortals in the four through dwelling.
Ø
To save
is to set something free to be itself.
Ø
To preserve is to take under our care.
Ø
In things – Dwelling as preserving keeps the
fourfold “in things”
Ø
Brings the presence of the fourfold into
dwelling.
**** Our being dervies from the divinities, and it lets lets
things come forth through presencing. ****
How does building give way to dwelling.
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We tend to limit building as construction.
Ø
We see it clearly as a thing.
Ø
A bridge analogy:
o
Banks are independent parts of landscapes.
o
The bridge connects and gives meaning to the
randomness of the adjoining landscapes.
o
It gathers the elements.
o
Bridge lets the stream be free and allow mortals
to crass.
o
Bridges tend to lead.
Gathering or assembly, by an ancient word is called a thing.
Ø
The bridge links the banks.
Ø
People tend to view a bridge primarily as a
thing that encompasses its relationship with its surroundings.
Ø
Over time – the thing becomes a symbol.
Ø
It becomes merely a bridge, and its expression
is lost.
Ø
It speaks to the bridge as a universal context.
My job is to lift the bridge from a universal.
Ø
Restores the bridge to a particular and reminds
us of the forces, or elements, that is used for gathering.
**** Link between Heidegger and Power of the Center ****
Things are unique because of their own pace, place and time.
** We need to lift from that status of things to the unique
elements that relates to them. ****
Locations come into existence because of things.
Ø
The collection of things allow for locations,
than in turn, allow for spaces.
Ø
Space: A place that has been cleared for freedom.
o
To let something be itself.
Ø
Boundary: Not something that limits, but
something that allows for the beginning of presence.
Ø
There are things, and there is how we dwell in
them.
Spaces receive their being from locations, and not from
space.
Ø
They receive if from the things in space.
The relation between space and locations lies in the nature
of:
Ø
“Things qua location” and relation of the human
lives at the location.
A relation of space and location, and a relation of man and
space.
The bridge contains may things and places, but the places
are viewed as mere positions.
Relations:
Ø
Distance – nearness and remoteness are viewed as
mere distance.
Ø
The bridge is viewed as mere something at a mere
location.
Ø
Spaces can be described as math, and then be
abstracted.
Ø
Spaces becomes an abstraction into an extension,
as pure extension.
The spaces we traverse daily are produced by the things that
generate locations.
Man and Space:
-
Space does not free man,
-
It is neither external, nor an internal
experience.
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It is within the nature of our thinking that
places us there.
o
It is possible for us to be neared to the bridge
then the people who use it everyday.
Spaces open up because of the dwelling of man:
Ø
In dwelling the persist through spaces by virtue
of their location.
Ø
We don’t only live in the here and know and one
space,
o
We perceive other spaces (mentally) and move
through them.
The relationship between man and spaces is through dwelling.
Ø
Strictly language and thought.
*** There is experience of space and place
Ø
There is conceptual of space and place
o
But we give it meaning through our interactions.
o
And it is through language and thought.
Mans relation to locations is through dwelling.
Mans relation of man and space is also dwelling, but through
thought and language.
Building is characterized as a letting dwelling
*** Cyberspace is viewed as place of interaction through
thought and language.
Building:
Ø
The joining of spaces
Ø
Not only buildings
Ø
But the infra-structure that connects them.
Ø
They create locations and therefore spaces.
Techne: To bring forth or produce in terms of letting things
appear.
Ø
Technology comes forth and then recedes into
things.
The nature of building is to dwell
Ø
Buildings accomplish this by the raising of
locations and the creation of spaces.
Ø
However, one has to be able to dwell before one
can build.
Old places illustrate dwelling that has been.
Building and dwelling are inescapable form thinking.
Ø
As long as the two listen to each other.
The fullness is achieved when:
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They build out of dwelling,
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And think for the sake of dwelling.
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