Die Sorge um das Wohnen in der Zukunft

Plädoyer für eine Ethik des Wohnens

Abstract

In its essence, living goes far beyond the temporary to permanent stay in the rooms of a dwelling. With Martin Heidegger, it is understood as an existential relationship of the subject to areas. Dwellers need other people as well as natural resources to enable them to live in concrete places. But what can be taken from nature is limited. Thus, care comes into the home and with it the burden of responsibility. The article therefore argues for an ethics of housing. The principles of protection (sustainability) and gratitude are discussed as their cornerstones. The example of the existential impact of kitchen and hearth concretises the task of an ethics of living, because in daily nutrition, the course is set in the exchange relationship with nature. Ethics strives towards the goal of gaining power over one’s self. It thus opposes submission to the imperatives of the “culture industry” (Adorno/Horkheimer) and the gestures of seduction of merely growth-minded markets.