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By Alan Schrift

Even if Nietzsche is usually brought up as a forerunner of latest methods to interpretations, little realization has been paid to the explicit contributions to interpretation concept present in the Nietzschean textual content. Schrift's well-documented examine rectifies this case. Drawing on assets from classical and modern French, German and English Nietzsche scholarship, this learn makes a speciality of a uncomplicated interpretive drawback: the way to keep away from the dogmatic positing of 1 interpretation because the right one with no lapsing into unmitigated relativism during which all interpretations are considered as both valid. whereas making the Heideggerian, Derridean, and a number of other French post-structuralists of Nietzsche obtainable to professional and non-specialist alike, this learn truly exposes the dogmatic tendency of Heidegger and the relativistic tendency to deconstruction. In a panoramic and lucid statement, this learn places Nietzsche involved with the hermeneutic culture in a different approach. Arguing stress in Nietzsche's various feedback on interpretation anticipates the hermeneutic pluralist substitute to Heidegger and deconstruction. This ebook might be of curiosity to scholars and academics in philosophy

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23 and which is made to do a great deal of work in Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche as the culminating figure in the history of metaphysics, is interpreted here to mean that "the highest will to power-that is, the life force in alilifeis to represent transience as a fixed Becoming within the etemal recurrence of the same, and so to render it secure and stable" (NZ, p. 75). And it is the Übermensch who wills this highest will to power. The Übermensch is delivered from the spirit of revenge by itself willing what has hitherto been beyond its will: the past.

Wer, p. 89) In the examination ofHeidegger's interpretation that foHows, we will see how he unfolds Nietzsehe 's thinking as always and in each case grounded in metaphysics. However, in this examination, it will become apparent that Nietzsche's conception of metaphysics is seriously at odds with that of Heidegger. For Nietzsehe, metaphysics borders on the nonsensical, and he expresses his opposition to all philosophies guided by the question ofBeing. We must therefore see how and if Heidegger's Nietzsehe, who thinks everything with a view to the question of Being and the Being of beings, can be made to fit with the Nietzsehe who sees in Being Platonic-Christian otherworldliness and who affirms the "radical repudiation of the very concept 'Being' " (EH, BT3).

The latter is "ontologically [... ,,19 Heidegger's extension of this distinction needs to be questioned, however, in terms of his characterizing the etemal recurrence as existentia. , will to power), it would seem that Nietzsehe must conceive the Übermensch, and everything else, for that matter, as Being-presentat-hand. The problem then is this: whatever else Nietzsehe might mean by "Übermensch," it seems clear that he does not understand by "Übermensch" something present-at-hand. Yet Heidegger's interpretation would appear to commit hirn to this problematic conclusion.

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