In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger. Schalow takes up the question: "Why should a philosopher like Kant, for whom language seemed to be almost inconsequential, become the crucial counter point for a thinker like Heidegger to develop a novel way to understand and express the most perennial of all philosophical concepts, namely, 'being' as such?" This approach allows for addressing issues which are normally relegated to the periphery of the exchange (...) between Heidegger and Kant, including spatiality and embodiment, nature and art, religion and politics. (shrink)

The German word >Selbstverständnis Selbstverständnis< as used in the common language of the second half of the 20th century was a buzzword. This is true also for contemporary German philosophy, although there are tendencies which show that the word might be on its way to become a philosophical concept or term. In the present article, I investigate the development of the philosophical expression ‚Selbstverständnis’ from its beginnings up to this day, an attempt not made so far.