Between the Metaphysics of Dasein and the Critique of Metaphysics as Ontotheology:On Heidegger's Interpretations of Leibniz
In 1928,Heidegger was searching for a new kind of metaphysics that he called the metaphysics of Dasein.The metaphysics of Dasein has two parts,fundamental ontology and metontology.Heidegger interprets Leibniz's idea of Drang from the metaphysics of Dasein.He sketches out a metontology of the temporal Drang.According to this metontology,the philosophical understanding of the world is characterized by human desire and it is being anchored in a facticity marked by its bodiliness,its sexuality and lineage,its historicity,spatiality and its being-with-one-another.In the Freiburg Lecture Course of 1955-1956,Leibniz became a thinker of metaphysics as ontotheology.Heidegger tries to transcend Leibnitz and metaphysics as ontotheology.This paper compares Heidegger's two interpretations of Leibniz and reveals that the way from 1955 to 1956 is too radical.The metaphysics of Dasein in 1928 cannot be subsumed under the"onto-theo-logical"metaphysics that Heidegger criticised in 1955-56.It has particular philosophical value.