Being and Time describes his project in the following way: "our aim in the following treatise is to work out the question of the sense of "being" and to do so concretely." Heidegger claims that traditional ontology has prejudicially overlooked this question, dismissing it on the basis that being is the most universal and emptiest concept, that is indefinable or obvious. Instead Heidegger proposes to understand being itself, as distinguished from any specific entities (beings). "'Being' is not something like a being." Being, Heidegger claims, is "what determines beings as beings, that in terms of which beings are already understood." Heidegger is seeking
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist 1974. In 2013 an edition with a new foreword by the philosopher Alexander Nehamas was published. "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" was reviewed by Chris Terry in "Times Higher Education". The book was also discussed by the philosopher Richard Rorty in "The New Republic". Rorty described the book as "path-breaking", but wrote that it had been superseded by the philosopher Richard Schacht's "Nietzsche" (1983), which in Rorty's view was more comprehensive, better organized and more helpful to readers who were new to Nietzsche and needed help in understanding the apparent contradictions in Nietzsche's views. "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" received positive reviews