Table Of Contentby Martin Heidegger
Volumes Three and Four
:Nietzsche
VOLUMES III AND IV
The Will to Power as Knowledge
and as Metaphysics
Nihilism
HarperCollins Editions of
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Basic Writings
Being and Time
Discourse on Thinking
Early Greek Thinking
The End of Philosophy
Hegel's Concept of Experience
Identity and Difference
Nietzsche: Volume I, The Will to Power as Art
Nietzsche: Volume II, The Eternal Recurrence of the Same
Nietzsche: Volume III, The Will to Power as Knowledge
and as Metaphysics
Nietzsche: Volume IV, Nihilism
On the Way to Language
On Time and Being
Poetry, Language, Thought
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
What Is Called Thinking?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
7'Jietzsche
Volume III: The Will to Power as Knowledge
and as Metaphysics
Volume IV: Nihilism
Edited by
DAVID FARRELL KRELL
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[Nietzsche. English]
Nietzsche I Martin Heidegger ; edited by David Farrell Krell. - 1st
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Contents: v. 1-2. The will to power as art; The eternal recurrence of the
same-v. 3-4. The will to power as knowledge and as metaphysics; Nihilism.
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!.Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. 1844-1900. I. Krell, David Farrell.
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MARTIN HEIDECCER
J\Jietzsche
Volume III:
The Will to Power as Knowledge
and as Metaphysics
Translated from the German by
JOAN STAMBAUGH
DAVID FARRELL KRELL
FRANK A. CAPUZZI
Edited, with Notes and an Analysis, by
DAVID FARRELL KRELL
Contents
Editor's Preface
lX
PART ONE: THE WILL TO POWER AS KNOWLEDGE
l. Nietzsche as the Thinker of the Consummation of
Metaphysics 3
2. Nietzsche's So-called Major Work 10
3. The Will to Power as Principle of a New Valuation 15
4. Knowledge in Nietzsche's Fundamental Thought
Concerning the Essence of Truth 22
5. The Essence of Truth (Correctness) as "Estimation of
Value" 32
6. Nietzsche's Alleged Biologism 39
7, Western Metaphysics as "Logic" 48
8. Truth and What Is True 53
9. Tracing the Opposition of the "True and Apparent
Worlds" Back to Relations of Value 57
10. World and Life as "Becoming" 64
11. Knowing as Schematizing a Chaos in Accordance with
Practical Need 68
12. The Concept of "Chaos" 77
13. Practical Need as the Need for a Schema; Formation of a
Horizon and Perspective 84
14. Accordance and Calculation 90
15. The Poetizing Essence of Reason 94
16. Nietzsche's "Biological" Interpretation of Knowledge 101
17. The Law of Contradiction as a Law of Being: Aristotle Ill
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18. The Law of Contradiction as Command: Nietzsche 115
19. Truth and the Distinction Between the "True and
Apparent Worlds" 123
20. The Uttermost Transformation of Metaphysically
Conceived Truth 131
21. Truth as Justice 137
22. The Essence of Will to Power; Permanentizing Becoming
into Presence 150
PART TWO: THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE
SAME AND THE WILL TO POWER 159
PART THREE: NIETZSCHE'S METAPHYSICS 185
l. Introduction 187
2. The Will to Power 193
3. Nihilism 201
4. The Eternal Return of the Same 209
5. The Overman 216
6. Justice 2 3 5
Analysis by David fimell Krell 255
Glossary 277
Volume IV begins following page 288.
Editor's Preface
The present volume of Heidegger's Nietzsche consists of three parts:
first, "The Will to Power as Knowledge," a lecture course presented
at the University of Freiburg in the summer semester of 1939; second,
"The Eternal Recurrence of the Same and the Will to Power," two
lectures designed as a conclusion to all three lecture courses on
Nietzsche, written in 1939 but not delivered; and third, "Nietzsche's
Metaphysics," a typescript from the second half of the year 1940.
These texts appear in the 1961 Neske edition of Heidegger's Nietzsche
(referred to throughout this translation as NI, Nil, with page number)
at Nl, 473-658; Nil, 7-29; and Nil, 257-333, respectively.
The holograph of "The Will to Power as Knowledge" (Archive num
ber A 40; typescript in "Red Folder" 21) bears the title "Nietzsche:
Doctrine of the Will to Power." Richardson lists the title as
"Nietzsche's Doctrine of Will to Power (as Knowledge)." The plans
for the Gesamtausgabe cite this last title without the parentheses.
"Red Folder" 21 also contains (among other unpublished materials
relating to Nietzsche and to the theme of Ereignis) the typescript of
"The Eternal Recurrence of the Same and the Will to Power." Con
cerning the two lectures that make up this typescript Heidegger in
serted the following note at NI, 658, corresponding to the end of Part
One of the present volume:
Because of the premature end of the semester in July 1939 the presentation
of the lecture course came to a close here. Volume II of this publication
begins with the text of two lectures that were planned as a conclusion that
would retrospectively conjoin in thought all the lecture courses that pre
ceded them: "The Will to Power as Art," "The Eternal Recurrence of the
Same," and "The Will to Power as Knowledge."
X THE WILL TO POWER
The style in which these two lectures are written suggests that they
actually constitute an essay, one that would have been exceedingly
difficult to communicate in lecture form. Part Two of the present
volume thus serves as a bridge from Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche
to his treatises on that thinker.
As the footnote to the "Plan of the English Edition" in Volume I
indicates, "Nietzsche's Metaphysics," the third and final part of the
present volume, is not (as was once believed) a lecture course from the
winter semester of 1941-42 but a sixty-four-page typescript dated
August 1940 (see "Red Folder" 22, number 1). The typescript contains
numerous corrections and additions in Heidegger's hand, from Sep
tember, October, and December of 1940. A second title page of the
typescript reads (in translation) as follows:
Nietzsche's Metaphysics, Interpreted on the Basis of the Stanza:
World-play, the ruling
Mixes "Seems" with "To Be":
Eternally, such fooling
Mixes us in-the melee!
(1886?) V, 349.
At the top of the second title page a note is penciled in: "Re: Winter
Semester 1938-39." This may well refer to a heretofore unlisted sem
inar ( Vbung, "Exercise") presented three hours per week during the
winter semester of 1938-39 under the title "Toward an Interpretation
of Nietzsche's Second 'Untimely Meditation': 'On the Advantage and
Disadvantage of History for Life.' " Although the present text of
"Nietzsche's Metaphysics" does not cite the Welt-Spiel stanza (see Vol
ume IV in this series, pp. 235-37), it does close with references to
Nietzsche's second Untimely Meditation.
The translators responsible for the first drafts of each part of the
present volume are as follows: Joan Stambaugh for "The Will to Power
as Knowledge," myself for "The Eternal Recurrence of the Same and
the Will to Power," and Frank A. Capuzzi for "Nietzsche's Meta
physics." I have revised the translations to ensure a modicum of con
sistency. Heidegger's texts contain no footnotes; all such notes are my
own.
