By Shane Weller
This booklet charts the background of the idea that of nihilism in essentially the most very important philosophers and literary theorists of the fashionable and postmodern classes, including Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Weller deals the 1st in-depth research of nihilism's key function within the considering the classy due to the fact that Nietzsche.
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Thus, the strange temporality of nihilism is precisely the same as that of the will as aesthetic transfiguration. In short, art for Nietzsche becomes the self-transfiguration (Selbstverklärung) of nihilism. The aesthetic/ascetic turntable If art as the self-transfiguration of nihilism is ultimately affirming rather than negating, then this is because, unlike both the moral and the scientific interpretation of the world – and, according to Nietzsche, the scientific interpretation is in fact a moral interpretation – art produces values.
45). Passive nihilism may therefore be seen as a kind of spectral nihilism, since it is a moral interpretation (that is, ‘nihilism’) which continues despite its own collapse. In attempting to take his distance from both Schopenhauer and Wagner in his later thinking, Nietzsche is aiming to free himself from just such a spectral nihilism, which, as he determines it, cannot ever lead to an overcoming of nihilism, since it never breaks with those values which it nonetheless now takes to be valueless.
Heidegger in Wolin 1993: 65; Heidegger’s emphasis) While it is indeed the case that the 1936–40 lectures on Nietzsche to which Heidegger refers in this letter constitute an attempt to counter the biologistic and racialist interpretation of Nietzsche, these lectures are in fact neither Heidegger’s first public engagement with Nietzsche’s thought, nor the first occasion on which he deploys the term ‘nihilism’. And, at the time of that first deployment, Heidegger presents National Socialism not as a clearer manifestation of nihilism, but precisely as the privileged form of ‘spiritual resistance’ to it.
