Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling: Angst and the Finitude of Being

The early Heidegger of Being and Time is generally believed to locate finitude strictly within the individual, based on an understanding that this individual will have to face its death alone and in its singularity. Facing death is characterized by the mood of Angst (anxiety), as death is not an experience one can otherwise access outside of one's own demise.
In the later Heidegger, the finitude of the individual is rooted in the finitude of the world it lives in and within which it actuali...