Review of Engelland, Heidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl and the Transcendental Turn

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T1 - Review of Engelland, Heidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl and the Transcendental Turn

AU - Golob, Alexander

N1 - Open Access Journal

PY - 2017/7/14

Y1 - 2017/7/14

N2 - Search NDPRSearchCHAD ENGELLANDHeidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl and the Transcendental TurnChad Engelland, Heidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl and the Transcendental Turn, Routledge, 2017, xiv + 275pp., $140 (hbk), ISBN 9781138181878.Reviewed by Sacha Golob, King's College LondonOne way to understand the trajectory of Heidegger's thought is as a series of engagements with the possibilities and the risks inherent in transcendental philosophy. This approach is the basis of Engelland's book; as he elegantly puts it, the transcendental functions throughout Heidegger's career as the 'shadow' which he cannot jump over, the hermeneutic situation out of which he writes (p.206). Heidegger's attitude to the transcendental evidently undergoes complex shifts, shifts mediated in part by his successive dialogues with Husserl, Kant, and others, but Engelland's central argument is that this attitude is never purely negative: as he sees it, even the later Heidegger offers what is effectively a 'transcendental critique of transcendence' (p.172). In this, the text challenges the oft repeated view that the post-Kehre Heidegger rejects transcendental thinking. Authors such as Crowell and Malpas have recognized the inadequacy of that standard narrative, but, as they themselves admitted, were far from clear on how exactly an alternative reconstruction should proceed: 'while the idea of the transcendental is explicitly disavowed in Heidegger's later thought, there still seems to be an important sense (thought one that remains in need of clarification) in which that thinking retains a broadly 'transcedental' character'.What Engelland effectively offers is the much needed clarification, exegetically and philosophically, of that 'important sense'.

AB - Search NDPRSearchCHAD ENGELLANDHeidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl and the Transcendental TurnChad Engelland, Heidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl and the Transcendental Turn, Routledge, 2017, xiv + 275pp., $140 (hbk), ISBN 9781138181878.Reviewed by Sacha Golob, King's College LondonOne way to understand the trajectory of Heidegger's thought is as a series of engagements with the possibilities and the risks inherent in transcendental philosophy. This approach is the basis of Engelland's book; as he elegantly puts it, the transcendental functions throughout Heidegger's career as the 'shadow' which he cannot jump over, the hermeneutic situation out of which he writes (p.206). Heidegger's attitude to the transcendental evidently undergoes complex shifts, shifts mediated in part by his successive dialogues with Husserl, Kant, and others, but Engelland's central argument is that this attitude is never purely negative: as he sees it, even the later Heidegger offers what is effectively a 'transcendental critique of transcendence' (p.172). In this, the text challenges the oft repeated view that the post-Kehre Heidegger rejects transcendental thinking. Authors such as Crowell and Malpas have recognized the inadequacy of that standard narrative, but, as they themselves admitted, were far from clear on how exactly an alternative reconstruction should proceed: 'while the idea of the transcendental is explicitly disavowed in Heidegger's later thought, there still seems to be an important sense (thought one that remains in need of clarification) in which that thinking retains a broadly 'transcedental' character'.What Engelland effectively offers is the much needed clarification, exegetically and philosophically, of that 'important sense'.

KW - Heidegger

KW - Kant

KW - Transcendental

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EP - 5

JO - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

JF - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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