Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"

The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927-28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. Heidegger develops his reading of Kant against the neo-Kantianism of his day, which tak [...]
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The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927-28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. Heidegger develops his reading of Kant against the neo-Kantianism of his day, which takes Kant to be presenting a foundation for positive science. In his interpretation of Kant, Heidegger poses the question of how ontological knowledge of beings is possible. The lecture course develops the relation between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology. Objectification of beings as beings is shown to be inseparable from knowledge a priori, the central problem of Kant's Critique. Heidegger demonstrates that objectification rests on the productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the basic constitution of human being.