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Transcendental Heidegger by Steven Crowell; Jeff Malpas; Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place,
World by Jeff Malpas
Review by: Anthony Adler
German Studies Review, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Feb., 2009), pp. 191-193
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representational style for the first time.The younger generation in the Federal
Republic increasinglyno longer identifiedwith their grandfatherlyhead of state
and also desired amore critical and potentially more divisive examination of the
recent past than he had been willing to undertake.
G?nther's study is awelcome addition to the literatureonTheodor Heuss and
on the Federal Republic's relations with thewider world in the 1950s. It success
on
fullyuses themedium of statevisits to provide important insights West German
the same era.
society during
those visits were
organized.
THOMAS
W. MAULUCCI,
It also
contains
much
interesting
information
on how
JR.,American InternationalCollege
Press,
Heidegger
transforms
the
scope
and
nature
and Husserl,
of
transcendental
inquiry,
moving
192
32/1 (2009)
question not just of the conditions of the possibility of knowledge or even of all
intentional
but?as
experience,
Robert
Pippin
the
argues?of
of
"'understanding
being' upon which all directedness towards objects 'as' something depends," and
indeed "the very possibility of any intelligibility or meaning at all" (3). A num
as the contributions byWilliam Blattner,
ber of essays in the collection?such
David Carr, Steven Crowley, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Dermot Moran, andMark
a willingness to translate
Okrent?combine
Heidegger out of his idiom with
to
his
Taken
genuine sensitivity
project.
together these castmuch light on both
the historical transformations that the concept of the transcendental undergoes in
Heidegger and the philosophical function that it assumes forhim.
With regard to the second task, however, TranscendentalHeidegger is less
successful.The essays byHerman Philipse, Christina Lafont, and Rachel Zuckert
make a valiant attempt to put Heidegger in dialogue with other philosophers by
attributing to him a certain interpretation of the transcendental thatwould be
open to critique from amore general perspective of philosophical transcendental
ism.Yet, thismore general perspective is for themost partKantian and, by failing
to appreciate the radicalness ofHeidegger's departure from the tradition, leads to
more misunderstanding than insight.The
heavy weight of a Habermasian Kant
for the failure of the essays
in this collection
symptomatic
contributions
of
French
and
significant
post-structuralism,
is, moreover,
the
ognize
to rec
above
all
tendency,
to
analyze
towards
moving
a "distinctive
in a way
phenomena
tion head-on
and prove
to be
mode
that draws
the most
only
of nonreductive
on
elements
analysis
already
that
given
in
contributions
exciting
static.
Malpas
Since
problematic.
into the world)
arises
suggests
that
transcendence
Heidegger
had
(understood
out of the
very difference
to abandon
transcendental
as
ultimately grasp theway inwhich Being and beings belong together. Instead, the
later
Heidegger
focuses
ever more
on
the problem
of "place."
Thus,
transcendental
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regarded
as a
companion
volume
to the author's
Place
and Experience,
as well
inmy opinion, is its failure to address the challenge that the concept of writing,
as conceived byDerrida, poses to thenotion of place. One worries indeed thathis
attempt to heal the riftbetween analytic and continental philosophy could only
succeed
through
ANTHONY
the exclusion
ADLER,
of literary
theory
and French
post-structuralism.
YonseiUniversity (Korea)
politischen
und?nicht
zuletzt?der
Gr?ndungsrektor
der