Transcendental Philosophy and its Transformations: Heidegger and Nishida's critical engagements with transcendental philosophy in the late 1920s

Yuko Ishihara

Transcendental Philosophy and its Transformations: Heidegger and Nishida's critical engagements with transcendental philosophy in the late 1920s

Yuko Ishihara

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Abstract

There is an interesting overlap between Heidegger and Nishida that has not gained attention in the literature. During the late 1920s, both philosophers looked to transcendental philosophy as a way to overcome the Western metaphysical tradition. Neither philosopher, however,simply accepted traditional forms of transcendental philosophy. Rather, both attempted to transform it from within. In this work, I aim to articulate the extent to which Heidegger and Nishidastill worked within a traditional transcendental framework and also the ways in which they attempt to transform transcendental philosophy. I argue that while Heidegger’s “hermeneutic” and Nishida’s “chorological” (I employ this term from Plato’s chōra) transformations have much in common, the latter is more radical than the former. Specifically, Nishida reveals the pre-reflective origin of transcendental reflection not in the pre-ontological understanding of Dasein but in the non-reflective experience completely devoid of the subject-object split: the selfless experience of absolute nothingness.

Original language	English

Publisher	Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
Number of pages	224
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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