ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book also presents the transcendental thought that has a twofold significance in Heidegger's writings. Transcendental thought holds an ambivalent place in Heidegger's philosophical itinerary. It proves crucial for motivating his thought but at the same time artificially constrains the discovered domain. Heidegger's various early analyses congeal in Being and Time's radical appropriation of transcendental thought, an appropriation devoted to healing the Husserlian dichotomy of the transcendental and empirical subjects. In the Kant book, Heidegger presents his own thought as a more authentic repetition of Kant's analytic aimed at laying bare the ultimate origins of the movement of transcendence. Heidegger adopts Husserl's phenomenology as something that is genuine but question-worthy. In Being and Time, Heidegger accounts for the covering over of the phenomena through falling, which is rooted ultimately in a diminution of timeliness.