Heidegger's Metaphysics: The Overturning of 'Being and Time'

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Heidegger and Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a critique of Kantian transcendental philosophy. Drawing on Heideggers published and unpublished work in the late 1920s, including lecture courses, drafts, and correspondence, it reconstructs the philosophical and phenomenological justification for this project, its implications for Heideggers phenomenology of time, his account of philosophical concept formation, and his relationship to transcendental philosophy. Daly proposes that Heideggers project neither failed nor remained indebted to a Kantian transcendental framework, and refutes the widespread interpretation of Heidegger as a critic of metaphysics. It examines a wide range of themes that have been largely neglected in discussions of Heideggers work, including a phenomenology of the mythical world (in dialogue with Ernst Cassirers work), the origin of religious concepts, the development of a temporality of thrownness, and Heideggers critique of Kantian transcendentalism for its inability to think how nature or history are originally given. It finishes by challenging the separation of Heideggers philosophy from his politics and asks what we can retrieve from his project today.

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Aengus Daly is a lecturer in philosophy and a researcher at the Institute for Transcendental Philosophy at the Bergische Universitt Wuppertal, Germany. He has translated numerous articles on 19th and 20th century German philosophy, and on Heidegger, from German and French into English.