A novel interpretation of Heidegger's project in the
late twenties and of its breakdown and transformation around the turn of the
decade. I argue that Heidegger develops a unified project in the late Marburg
period that is constructed around the question of the unity of the concept of
being in light of its regional multiplicity. Furthermore, I argue that Heidegger's
conception of the framework of this project is highly influenced by his reception
of Kant in this same period. Specifically, I identify the elements of the Kantian
framework that Heidegger retains and appropriates for his project, as well as
those elements that he rejects. In the former case, Heidegger takes up primarily
Kant's framework of a priori transcendental conditions that are to make
empirical experience possible, which Heidegger reformulates in terms of the preunderstanding
of being that makes possible the apprehension of entities. In the
latter case, I isolate two primary criticisms that will serve as desiderata for the
execution of Heidegger's project, namely: that the categories have an excessively
subjectivistic status, and that they are based solely on logical functions of
judgement. The former constitutes a problem because the location of the
categories on the subject side makes difficult their applicability to the objective
realm, and lead Heidegger to reject both the quid juris form of posing the
question as well as the results of the transcendental deduction in general.
