Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:54:09 +0200
Subject: Nietzsche / Heidegger (1)


The fundamental drift of Heidegger's interpretation
of Nietsche, is the relationship of WtP and ER. It is what makes
Nietzsche the metaphysical thinker, that thinks the completion
of metaphysics. 

Do we merely take WtP, Revaluation of Values, and Uebermensch
together, and leave out ER as mystical (Baeumler did this), then we
have only the anti-metaphysician. But: even the anti-metaphysical
element, can't be explained without ER. (or you end up with Vaihinger)

To what question is WtP the answer?
To: WHAT are beings (as beings)?

To what question is ER the anwer?
To: HOW is WtP (in its multiplicity) (as) itself?

What-being, quiddity  vs.  that- or how-being 
(modalities: possibility, actuality, necessity) 
in their togetherness belong to the structure 
of metaphysical thinking -
NB. these are not theorems. The structure
is problematic, provokes a question. 
In the case of Nietzsche: how do WtP and ER belong together.

In the 2nd piece (after WtP as art) of the Nietzsche volumes: ER, 
Heidegger retrieves the career of the thought of the ER.  
It comes first, earlier than that of WtP itself, in August 1881, at a 
specific place near Surlei. It came to him, says H., because Nietzsche 
had prepared himself for it, that is in the dark period from 1874 to 1881, 
when he leaves and is is left by everyone and everything. Nietzsche wrote
on this: 
at first loneliness necessary. For some time one knows not in nor out. 

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In German: "Nicht ein- und nicht aus-Wissen." In GA 45 - it's no use
reading the Contributions without reading this first - Heidegger, near 
the end, uses this same "not-knowing-in-or-out" as fundamental to the
Grundstimmung. (Nietzsche 1: 1936, GA 45: 1937)
An indication: as long as there is knowledge of something, the totality,
the (problematic) 'im Ganzen" of that which is, can't come into view. 
Note, that Heidegger pays, during the treatment of ER, special attention 
to the 'Seinde im Ganzen'
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Nietzsche: For some time one knows not in nor out. Not-knowing: the world
is CHAOS, 
not ruled by a unifying principle. Nietzsche has held out (standhalten) this
Stimmung. And an all-concerning thought like the ER can only arrive in
such a held-out situation.

Heidegger: Still in the same month of August, Nietzsche draws several
scheme's, in order to collect the consequences of the thought.
And H. pays special attention to the incommensurability of what Nietzsche
in fact publicized and what he held back and was later edited in the
Grossoktavausgabe. (now most of it in "Der Wille zur Macht", which
is according to one of the many scheme's, Nietzsche left). And even
in "Also sprach Zarathustra", the exposition of the ER is procrastinated 
(hinausgezoegert).  

One of thess notes from August contains the sequence:

Die Einverleibung der Irrtuemer   -   The incorporation of the errors
                                                (that is: metaphysical errors)


to be continued
  






   







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note: see for the modalities: Kant's thesis on Being. They are
Kantian categories. But not, like the others, determining the object,
but determining the relationship of the object to the Vermoegen
(power!!) of knowledge of man. Whether an object is possible, actual,
necessary, can only be determined with regard to this relation. The
relation itself is exposed by the subject, not by the objects
  

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drs. René de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
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