Nietzsche, Friedrich - Martin Heidegger (essay date 1954)
Martin Heidegger (essay date 1954)
[Heidegger was a German philosopher, critic, and educator. His magnum opus, Sein und Zeit (1927; Being and Time), exerted a profound influence on the development of existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and other contemporary philosophical disciplines. Heidegger's four-volume study of Nietzsche's philosophy was a major impetus for the renewed interest in Nietzsche among scholars in the mid-twentieth century. In the following excerpt from the second volume of that work, subtitled The Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Heidegger examines the meaning of the figure of Zarathustra in Nietzsche's philosophical thought.]
Our question ["Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?"], it would seem, can be easily answered. For we find the response in one of Nietzsche's own works, in sentences that are clearly formulated and even set in italic type. The sentences occur in that work by Nietzsche which expressly...
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