I am reading Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche in Bk 4 (Nihilism) of Nietzsche in this chapter by chapter way because Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche has generally inspired an impatient, hostile, reaction especially among those who take them-selves to know Nietzsche well. The problem, it is commonly said is Heidegger's interpretation; he misappropriates Nietzsche. Heidegger gets Nietzsche wrong. That reading is then excised.

We know Heidegger's interpretation by now: Heidegger's Nietzsche is the prophet of nihilism, and an advocate of human subjectivity or self-insurrection (as lord of the earth, seeking a destined technological dominion over the earth). He diagnosess Nietzsche as being himself ensnarred in this same metaphysics, which he spends so much time tracking.

The routine condemnation of Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche assumed in contemporary French and American Nietzsche interpretation and it is assumed that Heidegger's influence represents the main problem in the tradition of Nietzsche scholarship. Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche is not "good Nietzsche" -- by which is meant that Heidegger's reading is wrong because his reading is all about Heidegger's own obssessions. These are the traditional issues of philosophy, such as the Being-question, metaphysics, truth etc, through which Heidegger engages in a questioning of the history of the philosophic tradition in the West.

Heidegger is about all the heavy, dull metaphysical stuff that is detested by those working in the literary institution.The gay, mad, poetic Nietzsche disappears on Heidegger's reading. That is the interesting Nietzsche; not the Nietzsche who says that Heraclituss understanding of metaphysics as becoming and flux is closest to his own conception. Nietzsche's overcoming" metaphysics is a subversion of the Platonic tradition of metaphysics; it is displaced in favour of a Dionysian 'becoming and flux' metaphysics as will to power.

So Nietzsche's counter-movement against metaphysics, as the turning upside down of Platonic metaphysics, is still entangled in metaphysics.