This is an edited collection of original essays that combine philosophy, phenomenology, and literature to reflect on modern ideas about orientation and disorientation, grounds and groundlessness.

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is professor of philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has published widely in both English and Portuguese, including the Portuguese translation of Heidegger's Being and Time.
Tora Lane is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Södertörn University, Sweden.
Contributors: Ludger Hagedorn, Research Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Austria; Peter Hanly, Research Fellow, Boston College, USA; Krystof Kasprzak, PhD Student in Philosophy, Södertörn University, Sweden; Tora Lane, Project Researcher, CBEES, Södertörn University, Sweden; Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Spain; Helena Martins, Associate Professor, Pontifícia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jan Patöka; Johan Redin, Research Fellow, Södertörn University, Sweden; Marcia Sá Cavalcante, Schuback Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University, Sweden; Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor in Cultural Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden; Gustav Strandberg, PhD student in Philosophy, Södertörn University, Sweden; Peter Trawny, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Martin Heidegger Institute, Wuppertal University, Germany; Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University, Sweden.

Introduction Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Tora Lane / Part I: Disorientation in Thought / 1. Husserl and the Earth Sven-Olov Wallenstein / 2. Sublime Disorientation: An Interpretation of Kant's 'What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?' Krystof Kasprzak / 3. On Being Lost at Home: Disorientation between Economy and Ecology Michael Marder / 4. Lightness of Being, Gravity of Thought: (Dis-)Orientations in Nietzsche and Kundera Ludger Hagedorn / Part II: Disorientation in Existence / 5. On the Prehistory of the Science of Movement: Word, Earth, Heaven and the Movement of Human Life Jan Patöka / 6. A Place in Movement: Jan Patöka and the Disorientation of Human Existence Gustav Strandberg / 7. Exile and Existential Disorientation Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback / Part III: Disorientation in Being / 8. 'Intimacy' and 'Abyss' in Hölderlin's 'Death of Empedocles' Peter Trawny / 9. Hovering in the Between: Novalis and the Experience of Limit Peter Hanly / 10. Vertigo of Being Johan Redin / Part IV: Disorientation in Language / 11. Words (Mis)trusted Helena Martins / 12. Platonov's Chevengur: Disorientation and the Quest for a Transcendental Home in the World Tora Lane / 13. Disoriented Names: Benjamin and Kierkegaard on Politics and History in Language Irina Sandormirskaja / Epigraph / About the Authors / Index