Heidegger held that all greatness originates from rootedness in home and tradition

Evidence

When an interviewer from the magazine Der Spiegel asked Heidegger in 1966 what he thought of the idea that humans might one day travel to other planets, leaving Earth behind — because ‘where is it written that man’s place is here?’ — Heidegger was appalled. He replied: ‘According to our human experience and history, at least as far as I see it, I know that everything essential and everything great originated from the fact that man had a home and was rooted in a tradition.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 961

Categorization

• XREF: This crystallizes Heidegger’s late ‘homeland’ (Heimat) thinking, the same root metaphor seen in the Exekias cup paragraph at 960, and contrasts with Sartre’s and Jaspers’ embrace of the open and the contingent. — connects to: Heidegger’s forest imagery and craft metaphors came from childhood experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 179; Uprooting from home and roots defines modern global society’s history — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1205

Broader Connections

• Uprooting from home and roots defines modern global society’s history #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1205
• Heidegger’s forest imagery and craft metaphors came from childhood experience #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 179