At Home with Hegel and Heidegger

The image of home has a central place in the thought of both Heidegger and Hegel. In Hegel, being at home (Beisichselbstsein) is central to Hegel's reformulation of Kantian freedom. The notion of home and dwelling is also a central notion in Heidegger's thought, especially his later thought. This paper examines their respective uses of the term and argues that the different ways they conceive the problem of home or dwelling reveals their different conceptions of modernity.