Renewal of the Heidegger Kant Dialogue

Frank Schalow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University.

"I regard this as one of the most important books on Kant and Heidegger that has yet been published. Once I picked it up, I could hardly put it down. Schalow succeeds, almost alone among Heidegger scholars, in bringing Heidegger's perspective to bear on questions of ethics, moral freedom, and its social implications—topics usually lost in arcane articles that find few readers. He also addresses the relationship between Heidegger and Kant with an imaginative intelligence, and effectively roots much of Heidegger in his joining with or rejoinders to Kant. This is to bring into a common focus two of today's most widely read philosophers—and in a way that brings the issues that join, and those that perhaps divide them, alive and meaningful to contemporary philosophic discussions."It is exceptionally well-written; this is especially noteworthy because it deals with two philosophers who are legendary for their difficulty. It provides a comprehensive view of the entire Heidegger corpus (including an exceptionally wide array of the relevant secondary literature), and is built and succinctly focused around one central theme. The author traces the beginning of Heidegger's continuing dialogue with Kant not from its first appearance but from its nurturing grounds. And he follows it through around one basic theme—the concern to provide a theoretical base for 'practical' (i.e. moral) reason in its widest ramifications."— Charles M. Sherover, Hunter College, City University of New York

• Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 1. Hermeneutics, Finitude, and the Copernican Revolution The Emerging Problem of FacticityThe Transposition of MetaphysicsThe Wider Art of Hermeneutics 2. The Rift between Judgment and Truth Possibility and the Being of DaseinThe New Strategy of Transcendental DeductionThe Triunitary Structure of Time 3. Phenomenology and the Silent Play of World Logos and the Radicalization of Phenomenological MethodThe Subterranean Concern of the DialecticThe Anomalous Character of World in SchelerThe Crisis in Metaphysics PART 2 4. Temporality and Its Schematic Configuration Presence, Perception, and SubjectivityThe Existential Root of UnderstandingTemporality and the Development of Horizontal Schema 5. Imagination and Retrieval Repetition, Sensibility, and the Recoil from NothingnessThe Lengthy Way back to ImaginationIs There a Meaning of Being? 6. Transcendence and the Frontiers of Praxis The Question of MetontologyBeing and the A PrioriThe Hallmark of Freedom PART 3 7. Praxis and the Dilemma of Freedom The Dispositional Character of Moral RespectThe Transcendence of the Practical SelfThe Finite Nature of Freedom 8. Physis and Its Withholding in Natural Science The Silent Power of the NothingThe Copernican Revolution RevisitedThe Humanistic Dilemma of Transcendental Philosophy 9. The Imaginative Folds of Technology Trans-positions and the GestellThe Praxis of PhenomenologyThe Imaginative Locus of the Good Notes Index