Heidegger's Refuge (Forthcoming in Philosophy Today 71:3, Summer 2027)

In response to Sean Kirkland’s recent book Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle (2023), this paper examines Kant’s role in Heidegger’s phenomenology. The overall goal of the paper is to distance Heidegger’s mature phenomenology from the Greeks and show how Heidegger’s engagement with Kant is indispensable for his overall project and destructive hermeneutic. By drawing Heidegger’s reading of Kant into relation with Destruktion, Zeitlichkeit, and Temporalität, this paper argues that Kant is the foremost historical reference point for Being and Time and for the lineage from Destruktion to deconstruction. Kant alone offers Heidegger with a model for a groundlaying for metaphysics from the ground up, that is, from the co-primordiality of being and time.