Ima li misao zavičaj?
Does Thought Have a Homeland?

Summary/Abstract: In the context of “Grecomania”, which dominated German lands in the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first part of this paper outlines Hegel’s understanding of ancient Greece as the homeland of philosophical thought. The second part of the paper focuses on Heidegger’s critique of this Hegelian vision and his reflections on the “beginning” and “homelandness”, which, grounded in the thinking of Being, aim to overcome its “metaphysical” canonization. The third part of the paper elaborates on the concept of “geophilosophy” by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in order to highlight the transtheoretical conditions of thought. The final part of the paper continues and sharpens this orientation of questioning and, primarily through the texts of Martin Heidegger, Jean Améry, and Jean-François Lyotard, suggests the limits of thought that insists on its own ground, land, homeland, as well as the limits of conceivability of thought without its bearer having a homeland of one kind or another.

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