Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism

This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger’s account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of ‘temporal idealism’ with its sources in Plotinus, Leibniz, and Kant. For Heidegger, time can only be explained in terms of ‘originary temporality’, a concept integral to his ontology. Blattner sets out not only the foundations of Heidegger’s ontology, but also his phenomenology of the experience of time. Focusing on a neglected but central aspect of Being and Time, this book will be of considerable interest to all students of Heidegger both inside and outside philosophy.

• Only book on a key aspect of Heidegger’s philosophy • Heidegger’s appeal is enormous and cross-disciplinary (e.g. Companion to Heidegger has sold well over 10,000 paperback copies)

Introduction; 1. Care as the being of Dasein; 2. Originary temporality; 3. World-time and time-reckoning; 4. The ordinary conception of time and disengaged temporality; 5. Heidegger’s temporal idealism; Conclusion: the consequences of the failure of Heidegger’s temporal idealism.

‘ … sets new standards in addressing the topics that are, by Heidegger’s own intent, the most important in Being and Time.’

– Times Literary Supplement