Departures: At the Crossroads between Heidegger and Kant

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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. Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One. Why Did Heidegger “Turn” to Kant? 1 Attunement and Meaning: Saying the “Unsaid” 2 “Philosophy on this Earth” – The Lasting Importance of the First Critique 3 Addressing the Critics Chapter Two. The Crossing from Kant to Heidegger 1 The Translation “Key”: Heidegger’s Decision 2 The Tribunal of Reason and the Practice of Language 3 The Doubling of Imagination Chapter Three. Turnings: Of Time and Being 1 Errancy and the Forgottenness of Being 2 The Overlooked Linchpin in Heidegger’s Problematic 3 The Unthought Dimension of the “Play 4 Reestablishing Distance within Proximity Chapter Four. Praxis and the Experience of Being 1 Metontology and the Ethical Turn 2 Saying and Doing 3 The “Administrator” of Freedom Chapter Five. Translating the Political and the Rise of Technology 1 Anti-Humanism? 2 Thing and World 3 Being-Historical Thinking and the Space of Dialogue Chapter Six. Echoing the “Unsaid”: Opening the Question of Language 1 Sensus Communis and Language 2 Imagination vs. Representationalism 3 “...Without a Concept” Chapter Seven. The Ellipsis of the Third Critique: From Art to Nature 1 Of Things Heavenly and Earthly 2 Unwinding the Kantian Premise 3 The Mystery of Nature and the Idiom of the Word Postscript. The “Echo” of Kant and the Path of Thinking Bibliography Index