From Heidegger to Hölderlin: Modernity, Homecoming and Adventure

Die Wanderschaft in der Wegrichtung sum Fragwürdigen ist nicht Abenteuer sondern Heimkehr. 
The wandering toward that which is worthy of being questioned, is not adventure but homecoming (Heidegger).

Heidegger emphasises the importance of homecoming over adventure because he sees the impulse to adventure attaining dominance in the modern world - a world in which man feels increasingly homeless. But what if modernity's impulse for adventure were as valid and essential to humanity as the impulse to find one's way home?  What if modernity were in fact constituted by a dialectic of these impulses? What if Hölderlin saw further than Heidegger, when he wrote (in Hyperion), "If the life of the world consists in an alteration between opening and closing, between going forth and returning, why is it not even so with the heart of man?"