The Bounds of Self

Introduction: Undertaking To Be 1

?1 Being a Self 1

?2 Four Questions 2

?3 Heidegger's Kantian Cartesianism 6

?4 Methodology 19

1 Being in Question 24

?1 Being Forgotten 24

?2 The Ontological Difference and the Articulated

Regionalization of Being 27

?3 The Ontological and Ontical Priority of the Being-Question 30

?4 Being and the Self: Pursuing Ontological 'Self-Transparency' 36

?5 Conclusion 47

Table 2: The Basic Concepts of Fundamental Ontology 49

2 Outward Bounds - World and Others 50

?1 World 50

?2 World and Dasein 60

?3 Presence-at-Hand, and Some Remarks on Method 65

?4 Others 71

3 Inward Bounds I: Care as the Being of the Self 76

?1 Overview 76

?2 Being-in and Care 78

?2a Understanding and Existence 79

?2b Discourse and Falling 91

?2c Self-finding and Facticity 98

?3 Modes of Care 101

?4 Summary 102

4 Inward Bounds II: Temporality as the Form of Care 105

?1 Meaning and Time 105

?2 Temporality and Selfhood 108

?3 The Structure of Temporality 113

?3a The Future 116

?3b The Past 120

?3c The Present 122

?4 Summary and Discussion 124

5 Inward Bounds III: The Kantian Reinterpretation of Temporality 129

?1 From Being and Time to Kant 129

?2 Ontological Knowledge and Imagination 131

?3 Imagination as/and Synthesis 137

3a The Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition 137

3b The Synthesis of Reproduction in Imagination 139

3c The Synthesis of (P)recognition in a Concept 142

?4 Ontological Creativity and the Nothing 147

6 Time and Being 151

?1 Introduction 151

?2 World, Others, and Self Revisited 152

?3 Regions and their Unity 159

?4 Inter-Regional Relations 166

?5 Conclusion 174

7 The End of Ontology 176

?1 The Bounds of Self 176

?2 Doing Ontology - How? 179

?3 Doing Ontology - Why? 188

?4 Conclusion: Heideggerian Critique? 196