ABSTRACT
Perhaps Heidegger 's lectures on Nietzsche could be described as a most loving abuse of their object of desire. Krell 's pronouncement that 'none can pry apart this laminate' of Heidegger 's version of Nietzsche, would be a doleful one worth some pains to refute. 1
Nietzsche' s project in overturning Platonism is described by Heidegger as a ' new interpretation of sensuousness ' . But Nietzsche' s metaphors of dawn and daylight, of 'optics ' (from The Birth of Tragedy) and of perspective are drawn into a different scheme of the senses in Heidegger ' s imaginary, a scheme which ironically reproduces the hierarchy of sensuous and supersensuous from which (as Heidegger so skilfully diagnoses) Nietzsche grasps one must be 'twisted free' .
