Heidegger's Analytic

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HEIDEGGER’S ANALYTIC

This book offers a new interpretation of Heidegger’s major work, Being and Time. Taylor Carman places Heidegger’s early philosophy in a broadly Kantian context, describes its departure from Husserl’s phenomenology, and contrasts it with recent theories of intentionality, no- tably those of Dennett and Searle. Unlike others who view Heidegger as a Kantian idealist, however, Carman defends a realist interpretation. The book also examines the status of linguistic and nonlinguistic discourse in Being and Time and concludes with a discussion of Heidegger’s concepts of guilt, death, and authenticity. Rigorous, jargon-free, and deftly argued, this book will be necessary reading for all serious students of Heidegger.

Taylor Carman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University.

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MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

General Editor Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago

Advisory Board Gary Gutting, University of Notre Dame Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Humboldt University, Berlin Mark Sacks, University of Essex

Some Recent Titles Daniel W. Conway: Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game John P. McCormick: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism Frederick A. Olafson: Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics G¨unter Z¨oller: Fichte’s Transcendental Philosophy Warren Breckman: Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory William Blattner: Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism Charles Griswold: Adam Smith and the Virtues of the Enlightenment Gary Gutting: Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity Allen Wood: Kant’s Ethical Thought Karl Ameriks: Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Alfredo Ferrarin: Hegel and Aristotle Cristina Lafont: Heidegger, Language and World-Discourse Nicholas Wolsterstorff: Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology Daniel Dahlstrom: Heidegger’s Concepts of Truth Michelle Grier: Kant’s Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion Henry Allison: Kant’s Theory of Taste Allen Speight: Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency J. M. Bernstein: Adorno

HEIDEGGER’S ANALY TIC Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Being and Time

TAY LOR CARMAN Barnard College, Columbia University

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For Claudia and Caleb

And for my mother gone but with us

Denn es scheint, daß uns alles verheimlicht. Siehe, die Baume¨ sind;die Hauser,¨ die wir bewohnen, bestehn noch. Wir nur ziehen allem vorbei wie ein luftiger Austausch. Und alles ist einig, uns zu verschweigen.

For it seems that everything hides us. Look, the trees are ; the houses we dwell in are still standing. But we drift past them all like some foreign wind. And everything conspires to cover us in silence. Rilke, Duino Elegies

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments page xi Abbreviations xii

Introduction 1 1 What Is Fundamental Ontology? 8 2 The Critique of Husserl 53 3 Interpreting Intentionality 101 4 Heidegger’s Realism 155 5 Discourse, Expression, Truth 204 6 Authenticity and Asymmetry 264

References 315 Index 325

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

While writing this book I received financial support from Barnard College in the form of a leave from teaching duties for the duration of 1997, and from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the form of a stipend for participation in the Summer Institute on “Background Practices” in Santa Cruz in 1997. This book has benefited immeasurably from all the friends and col- leagues with whom I have spoken over the past decade or so, directly or indirectly, about Heidegger and Being and Time. Among them I especially want to thank Dave Cerbone, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Eckart Förster, Charlie Guignon, Richard Howey, Pierre Keller, Sean Kelly, Cristina Lafont, Mark Okrent, John Richardson, Joe Rouse, David Woodruff Smith, Gianfranco Soldati, Iain Thompson, and Mark Wrathall. I am grateful to two anonymous referees whose comments and criticisms im- proved the manuscript considerably. Bill Blattner has my special heart- felt thanks for his intellectual patience and generosity, and for going over an earlier draft of the first five chapters with a fine-tooth comb, saving me from countless blunders. He has been enormously support- ive, even and especially in the midst of philosophical disagreement. My greatest intellectual debt, however, is undoubtedly to Bert Dreyfus, whose constant encouragement and disarming candor over the years have been nearly overwhelming. Writing this book would have been impossible without his inspiration. Finally, I want to thank my entire family for their unconditional affection and support, above all my wife, Claudia, whose love is impossible to measure or repay.

ABBREVIATIONS

Kant KRV Kritik der reinen Vernunft

Husserl Hu IX Phanomenologische¨ Psychologie. Husserliana IX Id I Ideen zu einer reinen Phanomenologie¨ und phanomenologischen¨ Philosophie, Erstes Buch Krisis Die Krisis der europaischen¨ Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phanomenologie¨ LU Logische Untersuchungen PTP Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931)

Heidegger GM Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Welt-Endlichkeit-Einsamkeit GP Grundprobleme der Phanomenologie¨ KPM Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik MAL Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde¨ der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz PGZ Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs SZ Sein und Zeit ZSD Zur Sache des Denkens

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