ABSTRACT
The general tendency of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche is apparently reductive. It consists in showing how Nietzschean philosophy remains imprisoned within the structures of traditional metaphysics; so that, for example, the Will to Power and the Eternal Return correspond to the metaphysical concepts of essence and existence; so that the traditional definition of truth as adequatio, homoïôsis, is never brought into question; so that the very essence of nihilism remains unthought; and so on. However, it would seem that there exists at the same time another tendency, which consists, in contrary fashion, of ‘saving’ Nietzsche from metaphysics, justifying him, as it were, by showing for example that his vocabulary betrays a more radically innovative intention or one which anticipates phenomenology.
