Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 6, HT25)
Tuesday 25 February, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
Inga Römer (Freiburg University): 'What is a metaphysics of Dasein? Heidegger after Being and Time'
Abstract: Martin Heidegger is one of the most famous critics of metaphysics in the twentieth century. However, during the years following the publication of Being and Time, he understood his own thinking as a « metaphysics of Dasein ». If it is clear that this is what he is searching for during those years, it is much less evident what exactly he means by it. The talk will propose an introduction to this conception by focusing on the last Marburg lecture as well as the first lecture that Heidegger gave in Freiburg as the successor of Edmund Husserl. The focus of the discussion will be on the question how the double problem of metaphysics, dealing with the question of being as such and of being in its totality, relates to the problem of Weltanschauung, which was widely discussed at the beginning of the twentieth century.
