Our next session will again be in 3 weeks, and our reading for the next time is Part 2 of Volume 3, which is a separate essay rather than lecture that Heidegger wrote on the same topic after those lectures concluded. This gives a bit more of Heidegger's own position on what he understands as Nietzsche's metaphysics, in a more critical rather than expository vein. We saw elements of that in the last chapter we read for the last session, but it becomes much more pronounced in the part 2 essay.
As we have discussed over the previous year, we plan a long series of sessions on Martin Heidegger's major work on Nietzsche, which comes in 2 physical books each divided into 2 "volumes". We will be reading just volumes 3 and 4, contained in the second of the two physical books.
This is edited by David Farrell Krell and published by Harper One; I will give an amazon link to the work below.
Here again is an amazon link to the book we will be using -
https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Vols-Knowledge-Metaphysics-Nihilism/dp/0060637943
For those curious, volumes 1 and 2 come in their own separate physical book and cover "The Will to Power as Art" and "The Eternal Return of the Same". While there is value in these are well, I think we can start from the more crucial volume 3 and get through the core of Heidegger's argument - both his interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophical position and his own perspective on that position - in less time this way. But the dedicated may want to collect the other volumes as well and get to them some other time. Here is a link to that other volume on amazon -
https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Vol-Power-Eternal-Recurrance/dp/0060638419
The full project here will span something like 10-15 sessions, as this is a major, 500 page, challenging work. I've chosen it because I think those who have read and fully understood it are in a position to understand and perhaps participate in one of the major philosophic events, still ongoing, that shape the modern (or postmodern) world.
Indeed, I don't think the distinction between those two terms - or what postmodernism conceives itself to be - can be understood with clarity unless one has done so.
As always, newcomers - and returning attendees who have missed a session or two - will be welcome.
