Abstrakt
The research has two aims: firstly, to make a contribution to the Oikology of Hans Rainer Sepp and secondly, to show the actuality, that is to say the political and social relevance, of this philosophy. Both aims are realized trough a investigation of the experience of home.
For most people home (or the search or longing for it) is as existential as sense and identity, and often linked to both. At first glance home is thus seen as a positive concept, somehting humans desire and strive for: it is linked with feeling at home, intimacy, security and cosiness.
But if the question how a home is build arisis, there appears to be a forgotten or overlooked and inherently violent dimension: the occupation andappropriation of a real place. This former occupation of a real place is overseen in an investigation which focuses purely on sense and meaning.
Yet, it can be illuminated with an oikological approach, with which the hidden dimension, the oiko-logos of home, that is to say the logic with which human existance is locationg itself in the world (from simple corporeal placing itself to dwelling in homes). This oiko-logos of home appears as the search for ones own place or home which shows the afformentioned violent tendencys hidden in the concept of home.
An extrem example of the attempt to feel home in the world are conspiracy theories like the denial of climat change. Regarding climat change and the mass migrations likely to come with it, the question of home becomes vitally important.
In the end, therefore, possibilites of how a different version of home could be possible are considered.