Build, inhabit, think: A proposal for (re) reading

Abstract

We will analyze Martin Heidegger’s text “Build, inhabit, think” in different possibilities. In the first instance we will reflect on the philosopher’s text beyond its own borders, seeking to (re) think the meaning of “building” and “inhabit”, phenomena that deviate from the usual understanding of our everyday life and reveal the essence of our existence. Then we will show what these signs evoke in regards to the existence of man and his social insertion, and its possible implications with psychology. We will also correlate Heidegger’s philosophical references with the bilateral possibilities existing in the relations between the life of man and the spaces inhabited by them, since, according to the philosopher, all construction is already, itself, to inhabit. We analyze these concepts, which, lastly, will be applied to the exemplifications, since we are interested to show how such relations manifest themselves in the conditions of madness and exclusion.