This research clarified how contemporary phenomenologists have inherited the Kantian and Schellingian critique of ontotheology and how, in doing so, they present their phenomenology as non-ontotheological. This process was guided by the readings of Kant and Schelling as deployed by Courtine, Richir and Tengelyi and examined whether or not one can recognize the Kantian and Schellingian heritage in the work of Derrida and Levinas, philosophers of the preceding generation of these authors. The research concluded four points.

    First, the research clarified, through a Derridian reading of Kant’s Critique of Judgement, the possibility of interpreting Kantian philosophy as a phenomenology thinking about the actual infinite beyond our cognition. Second, by studying Richir’s reading of Frege’s critique of Kant’s transcendental schematism, the research clarified in what form Richir inherits this Kantian idea. Third, this research showed how Richir adopts the Kantian conception of ‘actuality preceding all possibilities’ and the Schellingian idea of ‘unprethinkable being’, and in doing so, inherits their critique of ontotheology. Finally, this research returned to work by Levinas and explored whether the seed of Richir’s conception can be recognized in Levinas. The result confirmed that the late Levinas concept of affection ‘in immemorial past’ describes an actuality that precedes all possibilities and, therefore, implies a non-ontotheological phenomenology.