Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

by Martin Heidegger, Parvis Emad (Translator), Kenneth Maly (Translator)

Overview

The eminent philosopher delivers an illuminating interpretation of Kant's magnum opus in what is itself a significant work of Western philosophy.
The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927–28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismantling the history of ontology, using temporality as a clue.
Heidegger demonstrates that the relation between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology is rooted in the genesis of the modern mathematical sciences. He also shows that objectification of beings as beings is inseparable from knowledge a priori, the central problem of Kant's Critique. He concludes that objectification rests on the productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the basic constitution of humans as beings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253004475
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	12/22/2021
Series:	Studies in Continental Thought
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
File size:	16 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Parvis Emad is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and the founding co-editor (with Kenneth Maly) of Heidegger Studies. Also with Maly, he has translated Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Martin Heidegger and Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger by Heinrich Wiegand Petzet.

Kenneth Maly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and co-editor (with John Sallis) of Heraclitean Fragments. With Parvis Emad he is currently translating Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) by Martin Heidegger.

Heidegger’s contribution to the growth and development of National Socialism was immense. In this small anthology, Dr. Runes endeavors to point to the utter confusion Heidegger created by drawing, for political and social application of his own existentialism and metaphysics, upon the decadent and repulsive brutalization of Hitlerism.
Martin Heidegger was a philosopher most known for his contributions to German phenomenological and existential thought. Heidegger was born in rural Messkirch in 1889 to Catholic parents. While studying philosophy and mathematics at Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Heidegger became the assistant for the philosopher Edmund Husserl. Influenced by Husserl, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, Heidegger wrote extensively on the quality of Being, including his Opus Being and Time. He served as professor of philosophy at Albert-Ludwig University and taught there during the war. In 1933, Heidegger joined the National Socialist German Worker’s (or Nazi) Party and expressed his support for Hitler in several articles and speeches. After the war, his support for the Nazi party came under attack, and he was tried as a sympathizer. He was able to return to Albert Ludwig University, however, and taught there until he retired. Heidegger continued to lecture until his death in 1973. 

Editorial Reviews

Contains the text of Martin Heidegger's 1927-28 university lecture course on Immanuel Kant's . Rather than writing a commentary on the work, Heidegger places it in the domain of the question of being. He proposes that ontological knowledge of beings is inseparable from Kant's knowledge, and that in laying the foundations of metaphysics as science, Kant was also limiting the range of possible knowledge of pure reason. A translator's preface briefly describes the history of the lectures. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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