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Authentic historiography : Heidegger's project in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Chadwick, Richard John |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | This dissertation constitutes an attempt to recover the methodological basis for Heidegger's project in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. In that book, Heidegger attempts to show that Kant's Critique is ultimately motivated by the same problem that Heidegger confronts in Being and Time. His startling claim is that Kant's transcendental philosophy can be more adequately articulated using the philosophical framework developed by Heidegger himself in Being and Time. This results in a particularly "violent" interpretation of Kant's Critique. Heidegger's interpretation has been criticised by historians because Heidegger attributes to Kant ideas and arguments that Kant did not and could not have accepted. Conversely, defenders of Heidegger's interpretation like Sherover argue that such criticisms miss the mark because Heidegger's interpretation should be judged according to the philosophical insights that emerge from Heidegger's interpretation without regard to its historical adequacy. This dissertation is motivated by the belief that the basic terms of this debate in the secondary literature are symptomatic of a failure to grasp, not only the real nature of Heidegger's project in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, but also key aspects of Heidegger's philosophical position as it was developed in the 1920s and presented in Being and Time. Throughout the 1920s, Heidegger argued that his approach to philosophy undermined the traditional distinction between systematic and historical research in philosophy. There is, instead, an original unity between the history of philosophy and the enterprise of philosophy; a unity that also brings into question the extent to which the traditional methods of historical research gain access to the reality of history. According to Heidegger, the full problematic of the unity of philosophy and its history must be unfolded from "the unity of the temporality of the philosophising factical Dasein". 1 This dissertation attempts to do precisely that. The result is an interpretation of Heidegger's account of Dasein' s historicity and temporality in Being and Time that can be used to demonstrate the Martin Heidegger, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic. (trans. Michael Heim) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984, p. 9. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.25911/5d51565907484 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/147905/2/b20662464-Chadwick_R.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.25911/5d51565907484 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
