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Tag: Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics

  • June 23, 2021 Collin Cleary 1 comment

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Eleven:
    Kant & Will-to-Power

    Wolfgang Lettl, Die Verwandlung, 1977.

    5,630 words

    All essays in this series available here

    1. Introduction: The Identity of Representation and Will

    Everyone with a basic knowledge of the history of philosophy has heard that Kant is the philosopher of moral duty above all else, (more…)

  • June 16, 2021 Collin Cleary

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Ten:
    Kant & the Metaphysics of Presence

    1961 West German Bundespost stamp featuring Kant

    6,542 words

    All essays in this series available here

    1. Introduction

    With this, the tenth essay in this series, we have reached a significant milestone. Our journey has taken us from Plato to Kant, and this is the fourth essay on Heidegger’s Kant interpretation. In the last installment, we saw that Kant is struggling to transcend the representationalist paradigm, but that he is inconsistent in this. (more…)

  • June 1, 2021 Collin Cleary 1 comment

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Nine:
    Kant & the Perils of Representationalism

    M. C. Escher, Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935.

    6,864 words

    All essays in this series available here

    1. Introduction

    My two previous essays introduced readers to Kant’s transcendental idealism and discussed the similarities and differences between Kant’s critique of metaphysics and Heidegger’s. It is now time to begin to consider Heidegger’s critique of Kant, and how Heidegger locates him within his history of metaphysics. (more…)

  • May 25, 2021 Collin Cleary 1 comment

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Eight:
    Kant, Heidegger, & the Critique of Metaphysics

    Giacomo Balla, Science Against Obscurantism, 1920

    6,034 words

    Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here

    1. Metaphysics, Natural Science, and Nihilism

    My last essay ended with the observation that there are clear points of convergence between Kant’s thought and Heidegger’s. (more…)

  • May 19, 2021 Collin Cleary 7 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Seven:
    Kant’s Transcendental Idealism

    1974 West German Bundespost stamp, commemorating Kant’s 250th birthday

    5,568 words

    Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here

    1. Introduction

    In the previous essay in this series, we saw Heidegger claiming that Leibniz “prepares” the completion of the metaphysical tradition, but that it is Nietzsche who actually brings it about. I will devote a future essay to Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche, but we may note here that the completion of metaphysics would have been impossible without Kant, who answers Leibniz and inadvertently prepares the way for Nietzsche. (more…)

  • April 7, 2021 Collin Cleary 14 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Six:
    G. W. Leibniz’s Will-to-Power

    G. W. Leibniz Memorial in Leipzig

    7,567 words

    Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here

    1. Introduction: Leibniz and the Completion of Metaphysics

    Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz (1646–1716) is one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of ideas. A true polymath, he was not only a philosopher but a physicist, historian, jurist, diplomat, inventor, and mathematician. (more…)

  • March 19, 2021 Collin Cleary 6 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Five:
    The Age of the World Picture 

    Hieronymus Bosch, Outer Wings of the Garden of Delights, ca. 1510.

    4,305 words

    1. Introduction: From Objectivism to Subjectivism

    In the previous two installments (Part Three here, Part Four here) we have discussed at length Heidegger’s treatment of the “objectification of beings” in early modernity: how beings come to be seen as “objects” related to a “subject” that confronts them (indirectly) from within an interior space that is called “mind,” “awareness,” or even “self.” This objectification is essentially identical with the representationalist theory of knowledge, which holds that we are only indirectly aware of the “external world,” via internal images which “represent” external objects. So far, however, this may not be the account of modernity that my readers were expecting. (more…)

  • February 26, 2021 Collin Cleary 8 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Four:
    The Cartesian Destruction of Being

    Frans Hals, Portrait of René Descartes, 1649-1700.

    6,518 words

    1. To Be Is to Be “Set Before”

    In the previous installment of this series, we saw Heidegger contrasting modernity to the Middle Ages in the following terms:

    For the Middle Ages . . . the being is the ens creatum, that which is created by the personal creator-God, who is considered to be the highest cause. (more…)

  • February 12, 2021 Collin Cleary 5 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Three:
    The Emergence of Modernity

    6,023 words

    1. Introduction

    For Heidegger, the history of Western metaphysics is characterized by understanding Being narrowly in terms of what satisfies human needs and desires – especially the desire for knowledge, prediction, and control. This “subjective turn” is usually associated with the modern period, but Heidegger locates its inception much earlier, with Plato and some of the Pre-Socratics. (These points are discussed at length in Part One of this series.) (more…)

  • January 29, 2021 Collin Cleary 17 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Two:
    Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages

    6,166 words

    Introduction

    In the previous essay (“Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part One: Platonism”) I began to sketch Heidegger’s argument for the claim that Western metaphysics lays the groundwork for the nihilism and decadence of modernity. I framed this account partly as a critique of the Traditionalists Julius Evola and René Guénon, who aimed to combat modernity with a “Traditionalism” grounded in Western metaphysics (more…)

  • December 24, 2020 Collin Cleary 15 comments

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part One:
    Platonism

    Plato and Aristotle

    Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

    8,701 words

    1. Introduction

    In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition.  According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. (more…)

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