Read "Nietzsche" volumes 3 and 4 by Heidegger

Our next session will again be in just 2 weeks, as the reading for the next time is again comparatively short. It is chapters 16 to 19 inclusive in volume 3, part 1 of Nietzsche by Heidegger. This takes us from "Nietzsche's Biological Interpretation of Knowledge" to "Truth and the Distinction Between the True and Apparent Worlds". This covers the confrontation between Nietzsche's understanding of the essence of reason and its traditional Greek understanding in Aristotle, considering especially the interpretation of the principle of non-contradiction.

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 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 will be welcome.