ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with a consideration of the literature comparing the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger before proceeding to an analysis of Heidegger’s idea of unconcealment preceding truth as a reading of history. It develops the idea of doubting inside the representation and judgements that must be believed to be true before examining what this means for colonial-era statuary. Heidegger’s contention about representational certainty not relying on relations to other things and being absolute from the outset is challenged by new revelations about a colonial hero immortalised by statue. Heidegger’s idea of Christianity without faith maintaining its power through certainty in representational thinking is introduced, as is how Dasein-caricatures inform crude categories of personhood in colonial settings.
