Distruzione, decostruzione, archeologia. Sul rapporto tra storia della filosofia e metafisica in Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault

In my paper, I intend to provide arguments in support of a thesis: it is necessary to think of an inseparable link between metaphysics and the history of philosophy. This is a paradoxical thesis: metaphysics has always claimed to be a timeless knowledge, based on categories valid in every age, capable of reaching eternal truths, extremely abstract and detached from all those factual and concrete contingencies that instead constitute the primary object of the history of philosophy. I will attempt to argue in favour of the need to think of the co-dependence between the history of philosophy and metaphysics starting from the reconstruction of a historical line, which is the one that runs through the Husserlian phenomenological movement. I will therefore identify Martin Heidegger’s destruction, Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and Michel Foucault’s archaeology as three moments in which the proposed thesis is confirmed.