The transcendental framework of Heidegger’s seinsfrage: endorsement and dismissal

Abstract

Heidegger’s relation to the concept of transcendence and to the idea of transcendental philosophy is almost as complex as his relation to metaphysics in general or to Kant’s philosophy in particular. As the recent talk on the “transcendental Heidegger” surely showed, one of the fundamental tasks of Heideggerian studies is to understand his significant endorsement of transcendental philosophy, as well as its later dismissal.