Levinas, Kant and the Problematic of Temporality

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Adonis Frangeskou

   Pages 1-16

3. The Ontological Destruction of the Schematism

   • Adonis Frangeskou

   Pages 17-46

4. The Ground-Laying of Metaphysica Generalis as Temporality of Dasein

   • Adonis Frangeskou

   Pages 47-76

5. Time, Temporality and the Opening up of Presence

   • Adonis Frangeskou

   Pages 77-108

6. From Presence to Absolute Presence: The Supreme Diachronism

   • Adonis Frangeskou

   Pages 109-133

7. The Ground-Laying of Metaphysica Specialis as Temporality of Being-for-the-Other

   • Adonis Frangeskou

   Pages 135-205

8. Back Matter

   Pages 207-223

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This book offers an ethical interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason by establishing the historical connection between the problematic of Temporality in the philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas on the one hand, and the ground-laying of metaphysics in the schematism of Kant’s critical philosophy on the other. Drawing on Levinas’s ethical critique of the Heideggerian problematic of Temporality together with his destructive proposal to carry out the deformalization of the Kantian notion of time in a manner consistent with Rosenzweig’s philosophy, the book argues that this historical connection should be established at the point where Kant determines the ethical status of the schematism according to the regulative schemas of the ideas of pure reason, and not, as in Heidegger’s ontological destruction, at the point of his determination of the sensible schemas of the pure concepts of understanding alone.

• history
• history of philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• Kant
• Martin Heidegger
• metaphysics
• philosophy
• ontology
• existentialism
• ecstatic-horizonal
• temporality

• Alexander College, Larnaca, Cyprus

  Adonis Frangeskou

Adonis Frangeskou obtained his PhD in Continental Philosophy at Staffordshire University, UK, where he also held a part-time teaching position. He is an executive member of The British Society for Phenomenology and is currently Visiting Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of the West of England, UK/Alexander College, Cyprus.

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