ran into interesting synergistic link btw a) sexy heidegger in 10 sentences (thanks mike) and b) phil. biographies article (thanks mjm)

a) Or do you mean his constant ref. to physical things (such as Heimat,
Verwurzelung)? What he means by 'Heimat' seems to be our implicit
'Seinsverstaendnis', we live in a world that has meaning to us and with
which we can interact. This then allows us to ask every 'Seienden' what
it is, and get an answer. In the enquiry into Being however, the enquiry
in itself is an ontical possibility of Dasein (Verwurzelung?), or
rather, amongst all entities or beings, only Dasein has the potential to
carry out this enquiry (this enquiry is a mode of Dasein's Being,
Heidegger would say), hence can only be transparent if based on an
existential analytic of Dasein (sorry don't make much sense in
Heideggerean terminology...). But Dasein's Being seems to be so, that
it's own Being is an issue for it (Death as human horizon, Sorge etc.)
and it can grasp the the Being of other 'things' or entities than its
own. To Heidegger this implies that an analytic of Dasein itself should
form the basis for any enquiry into Being. This analytic then reveals
that the main pillars of Dasein's Being are best expressed in temporal
modes and since Dasein is the 'physical' (if you want...) precondition
for any understanding of Sein, time must be the main structure in the
understanding of Being. Thus, the enquiry must be essentially
historical, lay out or live out in the present the philosophical
tradition of the question of being etc. the historical deconstruction
part... am sure you know all this... what I meant to say was that (see
above) "the enquiry in itself is an ontical possibility of Dasein", this
representing 'Verwurzelung' and that we must (in good existentialist
manner) free ourselves by rescuing the question of Being from oblivion.

b) Analytic philosophy, in which he was trained, has long
"insisted on the separation of the person from the view," an approach that
has been giving way in recent years to historicist notions like the
rootedness of the self and the social embeddedness of consciousness, he
says. From there, he sees it as a "quick step to including the life story of
the creator in order to understand the nature of the work."

1+1=2+ => sex!