Heidegger's Metaphysics: The Overturning of 'Being and Time' (2024)

Season 7 continues with the final of four recordings of book panels from our Annual Conference held at University College Dublin. These book discussion panels allowed recent monograph authors to present their work in conversation with a respondent. In this episode, Aengus Daly presents his recent monograph Heidegger's Metaphysics: The Overturning of 'Being and Time' (2024) in conversation with Georgios Petropoulos of the University of Galway Abstract: Heidegger’s Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a critique of Kantian transcendental philosophy. Drawing on Heidegger’s published work, lecture courses, drafts, and correspondence from the late 1920s, it reconstructs the philosophical justification for this project and its implications for Heidegger’s phenomenology of time and his understanding of philosophical concept formation. Daly proposes that Heidegger’s project neither failed nor remained indebted to a Kantian transcendental framework and challenges the widespread interpretation of Heidegger as a critic of metaphysics. This work examines a wide range of themes that have been largely neglected in discussions of Heidegger’s work, including a phenomenology of the mythical world (in dialogue with Ernst Cassirer’s work), the origin of religious concepts, the development of a temporality of thrownness, and Heidegger’s critique of Kantian transcendentalism. It finishes by challenging the separation of Heidegger’s philosophy from his politics and asks what we can retrieve from his project today. Biography: Aengus Daly teaches philosophy and is a researcher at the Institute for Transcendental Philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. He has also translated philosophical works and numerous articles from German and French into English. About this event: https://sites.google.com/view/licdublin2025 About the BSP: https://www.thebsp.org.uk/about/