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Metaphysics and Nihilism

1 - The Overcoming of Metaphysics 2 - The Essence of Nihilism

Martin Heidegger Arun Iyer

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English
Polity Press
11 April 2023
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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Translator’s Introduction The Overcoming of Metaphysics 1. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 2. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 3. The History of Beyng and the Overcoming of Metaphysics 4. The Vanishing of Being 5. Metaphysics and the Predominance of Beings: The Impotence and the Vanishing of Beyng 6. “Overcoming” 7. On the Formation of the Text 8. On the Correct Grasp of the Whole 9. The Overcoming of Metaphysics through Beyng 10. The Overcoming as the History of Beyng 11. The Other Inception 12. The Transition 13. Metaphysics and the Question of Possibility 14. The Question of Possibility as the Mode of the Question of Essence 15. The Truth of Beyng 16. “Truth” (Cf. Winter Semester 37/38) 17. Truth [Clearing of Beyng (Event) and the Correctness of Representing] 18. The Essence of History 19. On the Overcoming of Metaphysics 20. Correctness 21. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 22. The Overcoming of “Metaphysics” 23. Overcoming 24. “Overcoming” and “the Human” 25. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 26. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 27. The Overcoming of Metaphysics at its End 28. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 29. Over-coming is only in the Other Inception 30. “Worldview” – “Ideology” 31. The End of Metaphysics 32. The End of Metaphysics 33. The Clearing of Beyng 34. Nietzsche and the End of Western Metaphysics 35. The End of Metaphysics as Consummation in the Unconditional Corrupted Essence. (The Metaphysics of Nietzsche) 36. The Metaphysics of Nietzsche as the Consummation of Metaphysics 37. The Consummation of Metaphysics: The Positing of Value as Nihilism 38. The Consummation of Metaphysics Comes to Fruition 39. Beyng – (Event) 40. Metaphysics 41. Metaphysics 42. The Consummation of Modern Metaphysics 43. Metaphysics as the History of Beyng 44. Metaphysical Errancy 45. Metaphysics and the “Universal” 46. Metaphysics (cf. “Basic Words”) 47. Basic concepts (of Metaphysics) 48. The Essence of Metaphysics in Terms of the History of Beyng 49. Metaphysics and “Physics” 50. The History of Being (The Overcoming of Metaphysics) – Being and Time (The Question of Being) 51. Metaphysics 52. “The Metaphysical” 53. The Role of “Science” and Philosophy as Metaphysics 54. On What is Metaphysics? 55. On What is Metaphysics? The Nothing 56. On the Essence of Ground: Ground – Freedom – Truth – Beyng 57. “Ground” and “Truth” 58. Projection and Eventuation [Er-eignung] 59. “Ground” 60. “Ground” 61. On the Essence of Ground 62. The Differentiation 63. Metaphysics and the Differentiation 64. Metaphysics The Overcoming of Metaphysics I. Sequel I. The Differentiation 65. The Differentiation 66. The Differentiation (and the Question concerning the Nothing) 67. The Differentiation (Beyng is the Nothing) 68. Being and Beings – Metaphysics – the Differentiation 69. Differentiation and Event 70. Differentiating Being from Beings and the Distinctness of the Two 71. The Differentiation and What is Borne Out 72. Metaphysics (“Being” – an Empty Word) 73. The Differentiation 74. Being and Beyng 75. The Differentiation – What is Borne Out 76. The Differentiation II. On the Concept of Metaphysics 77. Metaphysics and the Thinking that is Responsive to the History of Beyng 78. The Overcoming of “Metaphysics” 79. The Transition of Metaphysics within the History of Beyng into the Other Inception of the Truth of Beyng 80. The A priori 81. Metaphysics and the A priori 82. The “A priori” – Character of “Being” 83. Metaphysics and the Differentiation 84. Metaphysics 85. “Metaphysics” 86. Being Conscious and Being (Modern Metaphysics) 87. Metaphysics and “Theology” 88. The Relation to Being within the History supported by Metaphysics 89. “Metaphysics” and the Thinking of Beyng 90. Metaphysics as Theology 91. Metaphysics and Modern Humanity 92. Metaphysics and “Theology” 93. Nietzsche and Heraclitus (“Metaphysics” and the First Inception of Philosophy) 94. The History of Beyng: “Overcoming” 95. Kant and Metaphysics 96. “Metaphysics” (“Subjectivity” and Substantiality) 97. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 98. The Essence of Metaphysics and its Overcoming 99. The Consummation of Metaphysics 100. The Overcoming of Metaphysics 101. The Consummation of Metaphysics 102. Metaphysics – Consummation (Inversion into the most Extreme) 103. The Interpretation of the Cogito III. Art and Metaphysics 104. In the Lectures on the Origin of the Work of Art 105. “Art” 106. When Metaphysics Ends, so too does Art IV. Metaphysics and “Worldview” 107. Metaphysics and Worldview 108. Worldview is the Perishing of Metaphysics 109. The Consummation of Metaphysics (Nietzsche) 110. “Worldview” 111. “Worldview” and “Philosophy” 112. “World-view” (“Life”) 113. Metaphysics – Worldview: The True, the Good, the Beautiful 114. Metaphysics and Worldview and the Thinking Responsive to the History of Beyng. 115. Metaphysics and Worldview 116. Metaphysics and Worldview V. Being and Time in the History of Beyng Insofar as This History is Experienced as the Overcoming of Metaphysics 117. Being and Time and Metaphysics 118. Time and Eternity 119. On the History of the Concept of Time 120. The Essence of Time 121. Time and Being 122. Being and Time 123. Being and Time 124. Being and Time 125. “The Sense of Being” 126. Being and Time 127. Being and Time 128. Being, the Understanding of Being and Beyng 129. Da-sein and “Care” – “Attunement” 130. Being and Time The Overcoming of Metaphysics II. Sequel I. The Consummation of Metaphysics the Abandonment by Being and Devastation 131. Metaphysics and “Science” 132. At the End of Metaphysics 133. Inception and Metaphysics 134. The Essence of the Consummation of Metaphysics in terms of the History of Beyng 135. The Consummation of “Modernity” within the History of Beyng 136. The Nothing and Devastation 137. Abandonment by Being 138. Abandonment by Being 139. The Abandonment of Beings by Being 140. Manipulation – Technology – Beyng 141. “Technology” 142. Manipulation II. The Origin of Metaphysics in the History of Beyng the Origin of Metaphysics and the Essence of Truth in the First Inception 143. Overcoming 144. One of the Characteristic Features of Metaphysics 145. The Age of “Theologies” 146. The Essence of Metaphysics: Theology and Mathematics 147. “Truth” and Metaphysics (Grades of the True) 148. On the Essential Determination of Modern Metaphysics in its Consummation 149. If Being is “Will” 150. Metaphysics and “System” 151. The A priori 152. The First Inception and the Origin of Metaphysics 153. Being as ἰδέα and the Collapse of ἀλήθεια 154. ἡ τοῦ αγαθοῦ ἰδέα: The Beginning of Metaphysics and the Crash and Collapse of the Ungrounded ἀλήθεια 155. How Metaphysics Begins and Peters Out 156. “Watching” and “Thinking” (The End of Metaphysics) 157. The History of Being and Metaphysics 158. “Worldview” and “Metaphysics” 159. Animal rationale – absolutum (causa) 160. Truth as Certainty: Modern Metaphysics (Leibniz) III. Metaphysics the Individual Basic Positions of Metaphysics 161. From Whence the Appearance that the Thinking Responsive to the History of Beyng is Only a Modification of Hegel’s Metaphysics? 162. Hegel’s Concept of History 163. Beyng – Event – Inception (Meant from the Standpoint of “Metaphysics”) 164. Beings as a Whole and their Entirety (Metaphysics and Beyng) The Essence of Nihilism Appendix Addendum to: The Essence of Nihilism

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and the author of numerous works including Being and Time.

Reviews for Metaphysics and Nihilism: 1 - The Overcoming of Metaphysics 2 - The Essence of Nihilism

“This translation makes available for the first time in English a series of Heidegger’s pivotal reflections on the overcoming of metaphysics, grounded in the thesis that the essence of metaphysics is nihilism. Containing important remarks on Being and Time and other early texts, this volume will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the inner development of Heidegger’s thought in the decade from 1938 to 1948.” William McNeill, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago “This volume is a welcome addition to the translation of Heidegger’s ‘private monographs’ from the late 1930s and 1940s.  Elegantly translated, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Heidegger’s views on the consummation of metaphysics in techno-scientific nihilism, the role of Being and Time in the overcoming of metaphysics, and the task of thinking in the age of the ‘abandonment of being.’” Miguel de Beistegui, ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona  


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