NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY AS THE METAPHYSICS OF OUR TIMES

HEIDEGGER, MARTIN.

Nietzsche. 2 Bde.

Stuttgart, Neske, 1961. 8vo. 2 orig. black full cloth w. orig. orange dust-jackets, white and black lettering to spines and front. A very good set w. only minor bumping to upper capital of vol. 1, otherwise near min, in- as well as externally. 661, (3); 492, (2) pp.

The first edition of Heidegger's famous Nietzsche-book, in which he equals Nietzsche's notion of the super-human with the realization of modern technical humanity.

Like his lectures on Nietzsche in the 1930'ies and '40'ies, the work also focuses on Nietzsche's posthumously published fragments "Die Wille zur Macht" ("The Will to Power"). According to Heidegger, these fragments form the culmination of Western Metaphysics, -though Metaphysics when turned upside-down, but far from abolished.

"Nietzsche denkt das, was die metaphysische Tradition das Sein des Seienden nennt, als den ewig wiederkehrenden Willen zur Macht. Durch den Gedanken-Gang zum Willen zur macht zieht Nietzshe eine "Spur" in die "Geschichte des Seins" und d.h. "in die noch unbegangenen Bezirke künftiger Entscheidungen" (I, 475)." (Pöggeler, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers).

With the word "Sein" ("Being"), Heidegger seems to have coined the "essence" of European thought. Metaphysically "Sein" is put into words as the "Wahrheit des Seienden" ("The Truth of Being") in European thought. According to Heidegger, also Nietzsche's philosophy of thought is Metaphysics, but not Metaphysics as a particular philosophical discipline, rather Metaphysics as the "Wahrheit über das Seiende" (the truth about that, which is). Thus viewed, Nietzsche's philosophy becomes the Metaphysics of our times.

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