There is no meta-place and no purely formal mode of dwelling.

What do you think you are doing, and where are you standing, when you say this?

Trying to be in the process the way that we moderns are: in but not above.

In their own ways both Kant and Hegel strive to describe the process of being in the world and culture and places, from the engaged inside rather than from some detached point of view. And of course Heidegger tries to do the same, as does Wittgenstein. They don't agree on the results, but they do agree on seeking a self-conscious being-in rather than the distanced being-above that has been associated with earlier modern philosophy.

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(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001