The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The
Essence of Nihilism (1946-1948) do not belong together temporally
or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because
they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different
questions - namely, that nihilism is the essence of metaphysics in
relation to the history of being. The overcoming of metaphysics is,
for Heidegger, the decisive historical moment in which metaphysics
is experienced as the history of the abandonment by being and
overcome at the same time. The abandonment of beings by being
reveals itself in the final and most extreme intensification of
metaphysics as the "unconditioned predominance of manipulation."
Manipulation means here the all-dominating producibility of beings.
The Essence of Nihilism is linked to the idea of overcoming. This
text deals with the attempt to elucidate the essence of nihilism
through Nietzsche's words "God is dead." The killing of God springs
from the will to power as the most extreme form of manipulation.
The being of beings is grasped here as the positing of values
emanating from the will to power. In this positing of being as
value, it becomes clear that being itself remained unthought in
metaphysics. Therefore, metaphysics as such is nihilism proper.
These key works by Heidegger, now available in English for the
first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars of
philosophy and to anyone interested in Heidegger's thought.
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