Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press
The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927--28 university lecture course on                  Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the                  first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger                  continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismatling the                  history of ontology, using temporality as a clue. Within this context the relation                  between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology is shown to be rooted in the                  genesis of the modern mathematical sciences. Heidegger demonstrates that                  objectification of beings as beings is inseparable from knowledge a priori, the                  central problem of Kant's Critique. He concludes that objectification rests on the                  productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the                  basic constitution of humans as beings.