Departures (eBook)

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Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans, LA, USA.

Acknowledgments 5
Abbreviations 9
Introduction 11
Chapter One. Why Did Heidegger “Turn” to Kant? 15
1 Attunement and Meaning: Saying the “Unsaid” 17
2 “Philosophy on this Earth” – The Lasting Importance of the First Critique 25
3 Addressing the Critics 38
Chapter Two. The Crossing from Kant to Heidegger 46
1 The Translation “Key”: Heidegger’s Decision 48
2 The Tribunal of Reason and the Practice of Language 58
3 The Doubling of Imagination 71
Chapter Three. Turnings: Of Time and Being 80
1 Errancy and the Forgottenness of Being 82
2 The Overlooked Linchpin in Heidegger’s Problematic 91
3 The Unthought Dimension of the “Play 98
4 Reestablishing Distance within Proximity 103
Chapter Four. Praxis and the Experience of Being 110
1 Metontology and the Ethical Turn 110
2 Saying and Doing 122
3 The “Administrator” of Freedom 129
Chapter Five. Translating the Political and the Rise of Technology 144
1 Anti-Humanism? 145
2 Thing and World 160
3 Being-Historical Thinking and the Space of Dialogue 172
Chapter Six. Echoing the “Unsaid”: Opening the Question of Language 180
1 Sensus Communis and Language 182
2 Imagination vs. Representationalism 189
3 “...Without a Concept” 201
Chapter Seven. The Ellipsis of the Third Critique: From Art to Nature 205
1 Of Things Heavenly and Earthly 206
2 Unwinding the Kantian Premise 214
3 The Mystery of Nature and the Idiom of the Word 224
Postscript. The “Echo” of Kant and the Path of Thinking 233
Bibliography 235
Index 249