ABSTRACT

This chapter traces Friedrich Nietzsche's various thoughts about the will to power in the later writings to get an idea of the scope of his experiments with it. Nietzsche's ontological reflections on the will to power are found primarily in the Nachlass. There really can be no argument that in last six years of his life Nietzsche struggled long and hard to develop the will to power as a fundamental category of ontology, causality, psychology and methodology. Some of the results of that development make it into his books on a number of occasions and in a number of different contexts. Beginning with Daybreak and extending right through to Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ, they find repeated uses of term "will to power" and "power", and, even where it is not mentioned explicitly, they also find arguments that clearly presuppose it. Finally, the chapter examines bundle theory is necessary for amor fati and it discusses the eternal recurrence.