ABSTRACT
This chapter will detail several aspects of Heidegger's thought. It will note Heidegger's account of Destruktion in Being and Time, which works to overcome the Cartesian centring of the self in philosophy. In his book on Nietzsche Heidegger also works to overcome onto-theology, where human being is defined by the being of God, and this too will be explored as it is linked with Heidegger's hostility to a metaphysics of presence. It will then explore the early Heidegger's account of existence in relation to death, and later Heidegger's accounts of nothingness and language as the house of being. Finally, it will pick up the critique of being-with as it is mounted by Sartre and Levinas, a response to which I argue can be found in Jüngel's own Hegelian-inflected theological anthropology.
