Steven Crowell and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Transcendental heidegger

Abstract

"At the Davos disputation with Heidegger in 1929, Ernst Cassirer remarked that, despite Heidegger’s criticism of contemporary neo-Kantianism, he had found, quite unexpectedly, “in Heidegger himself a neo-Kantian [philosopher].” Since then the problem has been to demarcate Heidegger’s relation to the “neo-Kantians” and “Kantianism” at large. This problem, however, does not stand on its own, as it has to take into account Heidegger’s relation to Husserl’s Kantianism, especially the project of transcendental phenomenology and, more specifically, Heidegger’s own conception of phenomenological truth as “veritas transcendentalis” (SZ, 38). What thus emerges is the question of Heidegger’s relation to transcendental philosophy, considered as a method and a mode of philosophical thought. It is this question that stands at the thematic centre of the book Transcendental Heidegger, which contains, apart from a brief introduction by the editors, thirteen revised papers which were originally delivered at a Heidegger conference, held at Rice University, Houston, in 2003. While the focus of all papers is on the transcendental dimension in Heidegger’s philosophy, the authors use the confrontation with Heidegger to reinvestigate the meaning of “transcendental” philosophy, especially in contrast to pragmatism, and other non-foundational modes of philosophy, be it in so-called analytic or continental philosophy. The book’s thirteen essays are thus critical engagements with Heidegger and transcendental thought in light of contemporary philosophy at large. The overall tone and style of argumentation in the thirteen essays is"