Heidegger’s Early Nietzsche Lecture Courses and the Question of Resistance
Heidegger’s Early Nietzsche Lecture Courses and the Question of Resistance

Summary/Abstract: It is well known that Heidegger described his Nietzsche lecture cours¬es as confrontations with National Socialism. Traditionally, this sense of re¬sistance was seen firstly in the fact that Heidegger read Nietzsche at the level of metaphysics and explicitly rejected those ideological appropriations which attempted to reduce Nietzsche’s philosophy to the level of biologism or mere Weltanschauung. This essay argues that the way in which Heidegger framed his interpretation of will to power in his first and second Nietzsche lecture cours¬es can be seen to contain a more explicit critique of the contemporaneous “ofi¬cial” Nietzschebild than has customarily been said

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