Entheimatung: Der Ursprung des Denkens und das Denken seines Ursprungs

Human thinking is interpreted as strongly entrenched in a dialectical process between a primordial familiarity with things and breaks in this familiarity. This can be seen both retrospectively in Plato's ambivalent examination of literacy and prospectively in Derrida's differance. The consequences of a dissolution of that process are pointed out in the example of posthumanism.