Western Culture knows only a single judicial concept of ownership: private property. Private property meaning, all things belong to people in the same normalized way. A closer look reveals that our relationship with things is more complex than that and confirms a gradual belonging of things to persons that stretches from an organic or intimate property to things being only vaguely attached to persons. This essay tries to outline this plural concept of ways of owning.
Was leicht übersehen, gerne unterschätzt oder gemeinhin übergangen wird, ist deswegen nicht gleich marginal. Und wenn doch, sollten wir unser Augenmerk gerade deswegen darauf richten. Denn die Wirklichkeit des Menschen ist natürlich nicht m [...]
Getting lost is an experience of an absolute loss of knowledge. Those who no longer have any sense of orientation have no reliable knowledge about the world. This essay sketches out various stages of this loss of direction and traces the advice that can be found in different areas: In philosophy, in literature, in outdoor manuals and in mythical material. The highly contradictory recommendations on what to do when you get lost have implications for both politics and the philosophy of science.