Heidegger on Kant, Time and the 'Form' of Intentionality
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2):345 - 367 (2013)
Abstract
Between 1927 and 1936, Martin Heidegger devoted almost one
thousand pages of close textual commentary to the philosophy of
Immanuel Kant. This article aims to shed new light on the relationship between Kant and Heidegger by providing a fresh analysis of two
central texts: Heidegger’s 1927/8 lecture course Phenomenological
Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and his 1929
monograph Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. I argue that to
make sense of Heidegger’s reading of Kant, one must resolve two
questions. First, how does Heidegger’s Kant understand the concept of
the transcendental? Second, what role does the concept of a horizon play
in Heidegger’s reconstruction of the Critique? I answer the first question
by drawing on Cassam’s model of a self-directed transcendental
argument, and the second by examining the relationship between Kant’s doctrine that ‘pure, general logic’ abstracts from all semantic content and
Hume’s attack on metaphysics. I close by sketching the implications of my results for Heidegger’s own thought. Ultimately, I conclude that Heidegger’s commentary on the Critical system is defined, above all, by a single issue: the nature of the ‘form’ of intentionality.
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