(Ebook) The Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time by R. Matthew Shockey ISBN 9780367642969, 0367642964

(Ebook) The Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time by R. Matthew Shockey ISBN 9780367642969, 0367642964

This book provides a systematic reading of Martin Heidegger’s project of “fundamental ontology,” which he initially presented in Being and Time (1927) and developed further in his work on Kant. It shows our understanding of being to be that of a small set of a priori, temporally inflected, “categorial” forms that articulate what, how, and whether things can be.As selves bound to and bounded by the world within which we seek to answer the question of how to live, we imaginatively generate these forms in order to open ourselves up to those intra-worldly entities which determinately instantiate them. This makes us, as selves, the source and unifying ground of being. But this ground is hidden from us – until we do fundamental ontology. In showing how Heidegger develops these ideas, the author challenges key elements of the anti-Cartesian frame-work that most readers bring to his texts, arguing that his Kantian ac-count of being has its roots in the anti-empiricism and Augustinianism of Descartes, and that his project relies implicitly on an essentially Car-tesian “meditational” method of reflective self-engagement that allows being to be brought to light. He also argues against the widespread ten-dency to see Heidegger as presenting the basic forms of being as in any way normative, from which he concludes, partially against Heidegger himself, that fundamental ontology is, while profound and worth pur-suing for its own sake, inert with respect to the question of how to live.The Bounds of Self will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on Heidegger, Kant, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.