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From: michaelP <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:39:29 +0100
on 9/10/03 10:04 pm, Stuart Elden at stuartelden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In sum, Nietzsche presciently grasped the problem of the twentieth century.
> Heidegger certainly believed this. But while Nietzsche saw the will to power
> as both a element of the world and something that could be turned to positive
> good, Heidegger felt it to be will to will, nihilism, the ultimate form of the
> old problem. So will to power is discussed in Heidegger, but critiqued by
> Heidegger. Not support and approval, but recognition that Nietzsche saw the
> problem. Not the same thing.
Stuart, thanks for your admirable grasp (begriffe) of the Grundbegriffe, but
one thing sticks, won't go down with the vino: For Nietzsche, the world
(everything and every thing, beings-as-a-whole) is nothing but the
will-to-power (which *must* be seen as *one* word, one concept {begriffe});
that is, the WtP is the very whatness (essence) of the world and is itself
therefore *not* another thing, being or collective thing of the world, and
thus can not be a *good* or *bad* thing because not a thing (but the
whatness of things). Surely what Heidegger is critiquing in these passages
is not WtP as such, but (1) the adoption (grasp) of such unthinkingly by
those who have (willingly or not) misunderstood Nietzsche; (2) that this
word for being is (only) the last stage of the completion of the
*metaphysical* domination of the world; of course these problems with WtP
are related. The problem now is to let being (or its turning away) into the
open, unmasked by the metaphysical grasp and hold on the world.
regards
michaelP
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