ABSTRACT
Heidegger, as we have seen, failed to understand himself very w e l l and quite lacked what Nietzsche called "the courage for an attack on one's convictions." When Heidegger began Sein und Zeit, he st i l l saw himself as a Christian theologian and a phenomenologist, but soon after the publication of that book, wh ich was presented as the "First H a l f of a larger work, he discovered Nietzsche, abandoned the project, and embarked on the second phase of his philosophy, i n w h i c h Nietzsche, various poets, and the pre-Socratic philosophers are as prominent as Husserl, Kant, and Aristotle had been in the first. But instead of giving himself and his readers some account of the ways in wh ich he had changed and developed, he considered i t a point of honor to insist on the elements of continuity. As long as the fundamental conflict in his thought and intentions was repressed, i t could never be worked out and solved. He was stuck.
