Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Heidegger's 1929 'Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics' — radical-phenomenological reading of the First Critique as fundamental ontology
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Early-to-middle) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
1929. The Davos University Conference (the famous Heidegger-Cassirer disputation) had taken place in March-April 1929; the Kant book was published later that year.
Space
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Freiburg — Heidegger had returned from Marburg to take Husserl's chair at Freiburg in 1928. The text was written during the immediate post-Being-and-Time period.
Matter
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Single monograph (~200 pages). Form is sustained close reading of Kant's First Critique structured around four main sections plus methodological apparatus.
Observer
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Early-to-middle Heidegger. The observer-philosopher is at the height of his post-Being-and-Time confidence, applying the existential-phenomenological framework of Sein und Zeit to a canonical figure in the history of philosophy.
Energy
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Post-Being-and-Time energies. The Kant book is Heidegger's working-out of how the categories of Sein und Zeit can be applied to a major historical figure; it is also Heidegger's response to the Cassirer-Cohen-Natorp neo-Kantian tradition that had dominated German Kant interpretation since the 1870s.
Information
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Single book with three later appendices added in the 1965 third edition. The 1929 first edition is the philosophically purest text; the later appendices reflect Heidegger's post-Kehre re-readings.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Major post-Being-and-Time Heidegger work; the locus classicus of his Kant interpretation. The Davos disputation between Heidegger and Cassirer has been read as the symbolic confrontation of the two competing twentieth-century inheritances of Kant: the existential-phenomenological (Heidegger) and the cultural-philosophical (Cassirer). Subsequent French phenomenology (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas) generally followed Heidegger's reading.