Heidegger's Nietzsche

HEIDEGGER'S NIETZSCHE: Being and Becoming

Paul Catanu • Philosophy / Non-fiction / Heidegger Studies / Nietzsche Studies

Book Description

Hammering, bombastic, poetic, mystic Nietzsche as seen through the mind of the great ontologist Martin Heidegger — this is what Dr. Paul Catanu delivers in this expansive volume. Nietzsche's thought, dissected, critiqued, and delimited by the author of Being and Time — one of the most influential modern philosophers of our day — is explored with scholarly rigor and philosophical imagination.

This book's objective is to explicate Nietzsche's idea of Becoming, holding that \"Nietzsche's philosophy can be explained entirely in terms of this concept.\" More particularly, it argues \"that through the withdrawal of teleology from within Becoming, Nietzsche manages to both complete and deconstruct metaphysics as onto-theology\" — contrary to Heidegger's famous claim. Containing never-before-translated passages from the Nietzschean Nachlass, HEIDEGGER'S NIETZSCHE reassesses Nietzsche's metaphysics of Becoming and extends Heidegger's line of thought into areas the ontologist himself neglected.

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\"This book is a product of impressive erudition and scholarship. It makes a comprehensive survey of Nietzsche's texts on Becoming, and shows how that idea is entangled with all of the others that are most important to him, including will to power, eternal recurrence, nihilism, and the overman.\"

John Richardson, Professor of Philosophy, New York University

\"Nietzsche has been many things for Heidegger

an inspiration, an adversary, a most privileged interlocutor as the culmination of metaphysical thought… 'Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht,' Heidegger famously quipped: 'Nietzsche sure knocked the daylight out of me.'\" — Jean-Paul Grondin, Preface

Author Bio

DR. PAUL CATANU is a Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. His work focuses on the intersection of continental philosophy, ontology, and the legacy of Nietzsche and Heidegger in contemporary thought.

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