Nietzsche

One of the major themes in Martin Heidegger's oeuvre is dealing with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The direct result of this detailed study are several lectures that Heidegger prepared in the second half of the 1930s and early 1940s and held in Freiburg, as well as four treatises that were written in 1941 and 1944/46, in which the subject matter of the lectures is continued and expanded . In 1961, Heidegger compiled and published the stations of his path of thinking with and about Nietzsche in two volumes. Under the title Nietzsche I and Nietzsche II he collected the texts of the lectures he had revised and the previously unpublished essays. The Nietzsche lectures occupy a special position within the complete edition of the works: on the one hand, they are already printed in the lecture version as individual volumes in the second department and are also reproduced in the form presented by Heidegger in 1961 in the series of "Published Writings". The bundling of the works from the period in which Heidegger dealt particularly extensively with Nietzsche in this and the following volume allows an overall view of a conceptual and content-related whole and enables the thinking comprehension. It thus opens up what Heidegger himself intended with the summary of his Nietzsche works: "a look at the way of thinking".