HeideggerChristopher Fynsk here offers a sustained critical reading of texts written by Martin Heidegger in the period 1927 1947. His guiding concerns are Heidegger's notions of human finitude and difference, which he first addresses through an analysis of the role played by Mitsein in Being and Time. This analysis in turn affords a critical perspective on Heidegger's own interpretive encounters with Nietzsche and Hlderlin. In a reading of Heidegger's