What is Home?
Novalis and Philosophy as Homesickness
Philosophy is really homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere. Where, then, are we going? Always to our home. (Novalis, Fragments)
The German Romantic, Novalis, offers us a compellingly humble and remarkably psychological view of philosophy. Even if philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge or truth, it is, first of all, the quest for home. In contemp…
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