Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant
The Violence and the Charity

This book reconstructs and defends Heidegger's interpretive method, tracing that method across his reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Morganna Lambeth (Author)

9781009239257, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 June 2023

240 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.49 kg

'With exemplary clarity and command, Morganna Lambeth's reconstructive interpretation of Heidegger's early studies of Kant makes a persuasive case for underappreciated lines of real convergence between the two thinkers (not least on the subject of time). By showing how Heidegger elaborates the most promising of inconsistent strands of Kant's argument, she demonstrates the depths of Heidegger's self-acknowledged philosophical indebtedness to Kant.' Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University

Heidegger has a reputation for reading himself into the philosophers he interprets, and his interpretation of Kant has therefore had little uptake in anglophone Kant scholarship. In this book, Morganna Lambeth provides a new account of Heidegger's method of interpreting Kant, arguing that it is more promising than is typically recognized. On her account, Heidegger thinks that Kant's greatest insights are located in moments of tension, where Kant struggles to articulate something new about his subject-matter. The role of the interpreter, then, is to disentangle competing strands of argument, and to determine which strand is most compelling. Lambeth traces Heidegger's interpretive method across his reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and situates Heidegger's reconstruction of Kant's best line of argument against other post-Kantian readings. She finally shows how Heidegger's deep engagement with Kant sheds light on Heidegger's own philosophical views.

Introduction
1. The Two-Strand Method of Interpreting Kant
2. The Receptivity and Spontaneity of Cognition
3. A Common Root: Heidegger's Foundationalism
4. The Metaphysical Deduction and Schematism
5. The Transcendental Deduction
6. The Form of Time and Self-Affection
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]