Cassirer–Heidegger debate
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The Cassirer–Heidegger debate, also known as the Davos Dispute (1929) is an encounter between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer which took place at one of the Davos University Conferences in March 1929 in Davos, Switzerland concerning the significance of Kantian notions of freedom and rationality.
Heidegger's encounter with Ernst Cassirer was the source of Heidegger's Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. It is here Heidegger begins to develop his unique interpretation of Kant which places unprecedented emphasis on the schematism of the categories. Heidegger began writing Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics immediately after Davos.
Cassirer, like most Kant scholars, rejected Heidegger's interpretation of Kant. According to Michael J. Inwood, Heidegger implicitly abandoned some of the views he expounded in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics in his subsequent work on Kant.
The Neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer and Heidegger engaged in an influential debate located in Davos in 1929, concerning the significance of Kantian notions of freedom and rationality. Whereas Cassirer defended the role of rationality in Kant, Heidegger argued for the priority of the imagination.
See also
- Fischer–Trendelenburg debate
- Foucault–Habermas debate
- Gadamer–Derrida debate
- Positivism dispute
- Searle–Derrida debate
