Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik. - [PRESENTATION-COPY]

1929. Bonn, Friedrich Cohen, 1929. Lex 8vo. Uncut and largely unopened in the orig. printed wrappers. A bit of loss to spine, a crease, some tears, and a bit of (ink?) spotting to front wrapper. XII, 236 pp. First edition, presentation-copy, of one of Heidegger's most important works, which was originally planned to constitute the second part of "Sein und Zeit". With an original handwritten presentation-inscription to title-page: "Mit freundlichem Grüss/ ...[?] Verf." "Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik" is not only one of, if not the, most important readings of Kant's "Critik der Reinen Vernunft" from the 20th century, it is also one of Heidegger's main works and an indispensible work for anyone interested in Heidegger's thought as well as 20th century philosophy in general. Whereas the Neo-Kantian philosophers had understood Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" as an epistemology, Heidegger here presents this all-time main work of philosophy as a foundation of metaphysics. Heidegger understands this metaphysics in its more original form as that fundamental ontology which is the metaphysics of Dasein in "Being and Time"; as such, "Kant and the Problem of Metahysics" is also to be viewed as an inevitable contribution to the understanding of the main work of 20th century continental philosophy, Heidegger's own "Sein und Zeit". "Heidegger's interpretation of Kant remains a challenging way to address the issues that both Kant and Heidegger saw as crucial...In reading ["Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics"] we can struggle with some basic issues of human existence in the company of two great minds" (International Philosophical Quarterly).