Nietzsche's metaphysics/1

I am interested in developing an understanding of Heidegger's
 interpretation of Nietzsche's metaphysics.  To state such a task
 is to already be within a Heideggerian understanding because
 some Nietzscheans would wince at describing Nietz as even
 having a metaphysics.  Already this interpretation denies 
Nietzsche a triumph (a great overcoming, as he would 
perhaps say using the language of the will to power) that 
he perhaps claimed, and that many
 of his devotees continue to claim for him... 
maybe this is an aspect of every philosopher's fate.

So the development of my explorations, at least at one crucial
 level, is to understand Nietzsche within the 'story' of 
Heidegger's thought, and to pay little attention to any other
 compliance despite protests or suggestions that may be
 justified given another interpretation of Nietzsche.

For example:  everyone knows that the book _The Will to
 Power_ is a 'contrivance' on several levels.  It was compiled
 by others, including Nietzsche's unscrupulous sister; it was
 further arranged in translation by Kaufmann (N.B. for those
 mostly dependent on English); _WtP_ is a text that some 
dismiss completely as 'secondary Nietz' because he did 
not publish it and it has been 'massaged' by editors as  are
many posthumous publications.  Should _WtP_ be "discarded"?
Or should it be viewed as "less than" ?

Heidegger has his own view of the notebooks that comprise 
_WtP_.  He is cognizant of the troubling midwifery which 
avails us this book, but he is more interested in looking at 
these notes as fragments of thought, and he is scrupulous 
about the date that Nietzsche wrote them.  For Heidegger, 
the later work of the lucid Nietzsche is the most complete 
thought, and that is how he will approach and enter into 
dialogue with the thinking of Nietzsche.  This may be 
annoying or reprehensible and illegitmate for some 
Nietzscheans.  tsk, tsk.

 I want to discover how Heidegger 
 means us to understand the schematic of Nietzsche's  
metaphysics as he discusses it in the _nietzsche_ volumes
and perhaps elsewhere.

The _nietzsche_ schematic is as follows:

1)  Beingness (what beings are as such)

2)  totality of beings (that & how beings as a whole are)

3)  the essential mode of truth

4)  the history of truth

5)  mankind's being transposed into truth 
for the sake of truth's preservation


The Nietzschean doctrines that correspond are these:
 
1)  will-to-power

2)  the eternal return of the same

3)  "Justice"

4)  nihilism

5) overman


It appears to me that a discovery of what Heidegger means 
by Nietzsche's metaphysics may be made by analyzing these 
five doctrines and how they correspond to each other within 
the framework of Heidegger's understanding of the history 
of metaphysics... or rather, the history of Being.

I'd appreciate any constructive or deconstructive suggestions
and comments-you know, the usual from this crowd.

thanks, 
kindest regards,
henry



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