%0 Journal Article
%T Truth, Art, and the ¡°New Sensuousness¡±: Understanding Heidegger¡¯s Metaphysical Reading of Nietzsche
%A James Magrini
%J Kritike : an Online Journal of Philosophy
%D 2009
%I kritike.org
%X In the first of four lectures on Nietzsche¡¯s philosophy, ¡°The Will to Poweras Art¡± (1936-37), Heidegger argues that the unique and importantrelationship between truth and art, which Nietzsche suggests, must beunderstood ¡°with a view to the conquest of nihilism,¡± i.e., within the historical context of a radically novel interpretation of sensuous reality. Beginning with the project of overturning Platonism as the active countermovement to nihilism, this essay interprets Heidegger¡¯s difficult notion of the discordant relationship between truth (the fixation of semblance) and art (the transfiguration of semblance) in Nietzsche¡¯s philosophy, emphasizing the supreme importance of art as life¡¯s greatest enhancing force. The analysis is conducted within the context of Nietzsche¡¯s metaphysics as presented by Heidegger, who claims thatas a metaphysical thinker, Nietzsche could not explain such topics as ¡°truth,¡± ¡°Being,¡± and ¡°Becoming¡± in terms beyond the conceptualization of Western philosophy. In spite of that, his thought intimates a movement beyond the constraints of the tradition within which he was entrenched. In addition to providing a detailed exegesis of Heidegger¡¯s lecture course, the problems associated with Heidegger¡¯s metaphysical interpretation of Nietzsche¡¯s philosophy will be discussed, problems that commentators such as Alan Schrift (Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation) believe stem from Heidegger¡¯s stringent and restrictive methodological choices for approaching the reading of Nietzsche.
%K Martin Heidegger
%K Friedrich Nietzsche
%K nihilism
%U http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/magrini_june2009.pdf