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Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Vol. 48-49 (2013-2014), 139-152 HISTORY AS SOlL AND SEDIMENT Geological Tropes of Historicity in Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty JACOB MARTIN RUM? Many twentieth-century accounts ofhistory have used geological tropes to de scribe the phenomenon of historical knowledge, and such terms have been of particular importance in the phenomenological tradition. In Heidegger's refer ences in Being and Time to the "soil ofhistory," Husserl's account in his later work of"sedimentation" in the lifeworld, and the reformulation ofthis notion in the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, geological tropes are used to illus trate important insights into the relation between contingency, a priority and historicity. This paper seeks to contribute to an understanding of history - un derstood phenomenologically as historicity - through an analysis ofthese geo logical tropes. Our findings can be summarized as folIows: such geological tropes help the phenomenologist to describe the way in which history is always determined within a complex interplay between only temporarily fixed determining struc tures - such as riverbanks, insoluble sediment, soil, etc. - and free-flowing praxis, a situation in which historical events are at once determinant of and themselves determined by human activity. Paradoxically, the constant and "grounding" element in such conceptions
Danish Yearbook of Philosophy – Brill
Published: Oct 1, 2011
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