Excavating Heidegger…
8 October 2006 – 6:28 amMatthew Edgeworth published an essay, beautifully illustrated by Fotis Ifantidis, about “THE CLEARING: Heidegger and Excavation” on Stanford’s Archaeolog.
He concludes:
The fact that Husserl and Heidegger - and later Merleau-Ponty - all employed archaeological metaphors to help elucidate the existential structure of human experience testifies to the unique and extraordinary character of archaeological excavation - taken for granted and undervalued though it may be by archaeologists themselves.