Seminar with Stanislav Horáček on Monday, May 4, 2026

The contribution argues that archaeology cannot fully understand its objects unless it also reflects on the inherited model of the thing, the model of knowledge attached to it, and the model of understanding through which both are enacted in practice. It moves from archaeology’s modern metaphysical inheritance through a brief genealogy of thinghood to Heidegger’s ontological difference, shifting the question from what things are to how they become intelligible at all. On this basis, objectivity and prejudice are reinterpreted not as merely methodological issues but as ontological conditions of inquiry. The contribution concludes that materiality and pre-understanding are inseparable and that archaeology’s future depends less on overcoming its modern origins than on clarifying the conditions under which its objects, truths and interpretations become possible.

 

Comment: Karolína Pauknerová (Center for Theoretical Study)

 

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Zasedací místnost etnologického ústavu/ IE CAS conference room

5. Patro / 5th floor

Na Florenci 3, Praha 1