It is necessary to say whom we consider our antithesis: it is the theologians and whatever has theologians' blood in its veins – and that includes our whole philosophy.

Christianity is bereft of the power it had during the Middle Ages to shape history. Its historical significance no longer lies in what it is able to fashion for itself, but in the fact that since the beginning of and throughout the modern age it has continued to be that against which the new freedom – whether expressly or not – must be distinguished.

But it would not mean a single step outside of metaphysics if nothing more than a new motif of “return to finitude,” of “God's death,” etc., were the result of this move. It is that conceptuality and that problematics that must be deconstructed. They belong to the onto-theology they fight against.