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October 31, 2004
Volume 3 of Heidegger's gigantic Nietzsche book is concerned with will to power. It interprets Nietzsche as the thinker of the consumation of metaphysics. Heidegger says:
"In the thought of will to power Nietzsche anticipates the metaphysical ground of the consummation of the modern age. In the thought of will to power, metaphysical thinking itself completes itself in advance. Nietzsche, the thinker of the thought of will to power, is the last metaphysican of the West. The age whose consummation unfolds in his thought, the modern age, is a final age. This means an age in which at some point and in some way the historical decision arises as to whether this final age is the conclusion of Western history, or the counterpart to another beginning. To go to the length of Nietzsche's pathway of thought to the will to power means to catch sight of this historical decision."
I have introduced Heidegger because he argues that will to power is Nietzsche's key idea, even if the book Will To Power, is not a published work by Nietzsche. It is a number of writings over different years assembled by others.
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Is the Overman possible (immaginable?) without the Will to Power? Is there a satisfactory solution to eternal reccurence even thinkingable without the Will to Power?
Also, with the WtP, Nietzsche has been uncharacteristically concrete and we see a lot less poetry and metaphors as we do with, shall we say, eternal reccurence. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.