Editing Being and Time (section)

===Destructuring===
{{See also|Deconstruction}}
In ''Being and Time'' Heidegger briefly refutes the philosophy of [[René Descartes]] (in an exercise he called "destructuring"), but the second volume, intended as a ''[[Destruktion]]'' of Western philosophy, was never written. Heidegger sought to explain how theoretical knowledge came to be seen, incorrectly in his view, as fundamental to being. This explanation takes the form of a destructuring (''Destruktion'') of the philosophical tradition, an interpretative strategy that reveals the fundamental experience of being hidden within the theoretical attitude of the [[metaphysics of presence]].<ref>Diefenbach, K., [[Sara R. Farris|Farris, S. R.]], Kirn, G., & Thomas, P., eds., ''Encountering Althusser: Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought'' (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=UYPFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 11–13].</ref>{{rp|11–13}}

In later works, while becoming less systematic and more obscure than in ''Being and Time'', Heidegger turns to the exegesis of historical texts, especially those of Presocratic philosophers, but also of Aristotle, Kant, [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]], [[Plato]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], and [[Friedrich Hölderlin|Hölderlin]], among others.<ref>[[Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz|Korab-Karpowicz, W. J.]], ''The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger'' ([[Frankfurt|Frankfurt am Main]]: [[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang Edition]], 2017), [https://books.google.com/books?id=1_S-DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 24].</ref>{{rp|24}}