Abstract

My basic claim in this article is that Heidegger’s lifelong engagement with Kant’s critical philosophy displays a unity that consists in the development of a problem that concerns transcendental-critical methodology at a fundamental level. My goal is therefore simultaneously interpretative and systematic: I will both trace out a trajectory for a unitary interpretation of Heidegger’s reading of Kant and show that the problem that animates this reading concerns at bottom the methodological resources and limitations of a transcendental grounding of ontology. More specifically, I argue that what connects the different moments of Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant’s theoretical philosophy is the question of how, within...