In May of 1934, Husserl wrote a strange little text about the Earth, which has garnered a lot of scholarly interest.The text centres around a phenomenological investigation regarding our relation...Show moreIn May of 1934, Husserl wrote a strange little text about the Earth, which has garnered a lot of scholarly interest.The text centres around a phenomenological investigation regarding our relation to the Earth. It might be considered controversial in the sense that it claims that the earth does not move. It might also be said to be controversial because many scholars can’t seem to figure out whether it is trying to break out of Husserl’s egology or whether it subjects the earth in its constitutive function to the transcendental ego. However, I think the text should be controversial for another reason – a reason that, especially in the English translation, seems to have flown under the radar. The concepts Husserl uses to mediate our relationship to earth are, in my opinion, highly suspect, especially if we look at the time and place he wrote the text: Nazi Germany. I want to draw our attention to three concepts Husserl uses to argue for our necessary relation to the earth, and what their implication is for this text's relation to National Socialist ideology; these terms being Boden, Heimat and Volk.Show less