Abstract

It is small wonder that Nietzsche was a serious addressee of Heidegger’s philosophy. If the earlier works attest to a relatively implicit presence of Nietzsche, primarily through scarsce references and, more importantly, through Heidegger's emphasis on the deinotative character of being, the latter works tackle Nietzsche and his nihilism with greater philosophical rigour. It is here that we find fully elaborated Heidegger’s critical thought of the will to power as the oblivion of being. Without a shadow of doubt, the highest peak and the fathomless depth of Nietzsche’s philosophy is his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The later works are thus deemed a further explication of one and the same topic, i.e. the groundless thought of the eternal recurrence of the same. Of course, our path of understanding Nietzsche’s philosophy is just one among many. And the direction it takes is from Thus Spoke Zaratustra to Genealogy of Morals and backwards, especially with regard to the problem of being as will. The issue at stake is whether it is truly possible, in Heidegger's manner, to accuse Nietzsche in his entirety of the oblivion of being and nihilism