The Root of Heidegger's Concern for the Earth at the Consummation of Metaphysics: The Nietzsche Lectures

Authors

  • Dale Allen Wilkerson University of North Texas

Keywords:

Heidegger, Technology, History of Ideas

Abstract

This essay attempts to situate Heidegger's critique of modernity's technological worldview within the conceptual context and time frame of his Nietzsche lectures of the 1930's. Heidegger discovers in Nietzsche's thought the "consummation of metaphysics” and in Nietzsche's concept of "will to power” an articulation of the world dominating principle reflecting modernity's comportment with beings as mere resources for consumption. Such a principle voices the utter destruction of Being and obliterates any possibility for the more considerate disclosure of beings in a non-technological way.

Author Biography

Dale Allen Wilkerson, University of North Texas

Dale Wilkerson specializes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy. His book, NIETZSCHE AND THE GREEKS (Continuum-Thoemmes), will be published in 2006.

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Published

15-08-2005

How to Cite

Wilkerson, D. A. (2005). The Root of Heidegger’s Concern for the Earth at the Consummation of Metaphysics: The Nietzsche Lectures. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 1(1), 27–34. Retrieved from http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/4

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Philosophy and Life

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