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Title:Nihilism, Homelessness, and Place
Authors:ID Malpas, Jeff (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:Logo INR - Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities
Abstract:One of the ways, in which a form of nihilism might be thought to be present in contemporary life and culture, in an especially pervasive and powerful fashion, is in the phenomenon of homelessness. Since homelessness is essentially a privative phenomenon, any serious engagement with it forces us also to engage with the ideas of home, and of place and belonging, from which homelessness derives—ideas that themselves take on a problematic character in the contemporary world. The paper addresses some of the arguments and claims that arise in relation to these ideas, and especially the critical arguments that are frequently directed at them and are taken to imply the need for their abandonment. The main claim of the paper is that such a conclusion is misconceived and misguided, and that home, place, and belonging require rethinking and retrieval rather than abandonment. The paper has three main elements: first, a brief survey of the lines of argument that are typically directed at the notions at issue here; second, an exploration of the reasons why those notions remain necessary; third, a discussion of the task of retrieval and the way the task of retrieval is itself central to the possibility of critique.
Keywords:homelessness, home, belonging, place, nihilism
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:23.12.2024
Year of publishing:2024
Number of pages:str. 185-208
Numbering:Letn. 33, št. 130/131
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-21175 New window
UDC:165.721:364
ISSN on article:1318-3362
DOI:10.32022/PHI33.2024.130-131.9 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:220873731 New window
Publication date in DiRROS:09.01.2025
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MALPAS, Jeff, 2024, Nihilism, Homelessness, and Place. Phainomena : [glasilo Fenomenološkega društva v Ljubljani [online]. 2024. Vol. 33, no. 130/131, p. 185–208. [Accessed 8 April 2025]. DOI 10.32022/PHI33.2024.130-131.9. Retrieved from: https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=21175
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Title:Phainomena : [glasilo Fenomenološkega društva v Ljubljani
Shortened title:Phainomena
Publisher:Fenomenološko društvo [etc.], Fenomenološko društvo [etc.], Nova revija, Inštitut Nove revije - Zavod za humanistiko
ISSN:1318-3362
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Document is financed by a project

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P6-0341
Name:Humanistika in smisel humanosti v vidikih zgodovinskosti in sodobnosti
Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:J7-4631
Name:Hermenevtični problem razumevanja človeške eksistence in koeksistence v epohi nihilizma
Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:I0-0036
Name:Center za promocijo humanistike Inštituta Nove revije

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Language:Slovenian
Title:Nihilizem, brezdomnost in kraj
Abstract:Ena od poti premisleka o tem, kako je forma nihilizma na posebej predirljiv in silovit način prisotna v sodobnem življenju in kulturi, je fenomen brezdomnosti. Ker je brezdomnost bistveno privativni pojav, nas vsako resno ukvarjanje z njo primora tudi k ukvarjanju s pojmovanji doma, kraja in pripadnosti, iz katerih brezdomnost izhaja – pojmovanji, ki so v sodobnem svetu sama po sebi postala problematična. Članek obravnava nekatere argumente in trditve, ki se pojavljajo v zvezi s temi pojmovanji, zlasti kritične argumente, ki so pogosto naravnani proti njim in implicirajo, da jih je treba opustiti. Glavna teza prispevka je, da je takšen sklep zmoten in zgrešen ter da dom, kraj in pripadnost zahtevajo ponovni premislek in vnovično vzpostavitev, ne pa opustitev. Prispevek vsebuje tri glavne elemente: prvič, kratek pretres argumentacijskih linij, ki so značilno naperjene proti obravnavanim pojmom; drugič, razmislek o razlogih, zakaj so ti pojmi še vedno potrebni; tretjič, obravnavo naloge vnovične vzpostavitve omenjenih pojmovanj in osrednje pomembnosti takšne naloge za možnost kritike.
Keywords:brezdomnost, dom, pripadnost, kraj, nihilizem


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