 The anti-Cartesian view of the self-in-situation yields the familiar existential theme of the “alienated” self, the estrangement of the self both from the world and from itself. In the first place, while it is through my projects that the world takes on meaning, the world itself is not brought into being through my projects; it retains its otherness and thus can come forth as utterly alien, as unheimlich. Sometimes translated as “uncanny,” this Heideggerian word’s stem (Heim, “home”) points to the strangeness of a world in which I precisely do not feel “at home.” (see the section on  The Ideality of Values  below). This experience, basic to existential thought, contrasts most sharply with the ancient notion of a kosmos in which human beings have a well-ordered place, and it connects existential thought tightly to the modern experience of a meaningless universe.