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Nietzsche

Nietzsche & Heidegger: Laminate or Separate?

Bill Cooke on the humanist value of Nietzsche.

The story of the long rehabilitation of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) after being unfairly implicated in the rise of Nazism is well known. But the time may be coming when another daring rescue operation will be called for. For several years now, Nietzsche has been hailed as one of the pre-eminent intellectual authorities for postmodernism. But since the ‘Sokal hoax’ in 1996, this eclectic miscellany of moods has come to look decidedly vulnerable and past its prime.

And to complicate matters still further, Nietzsche has been bound in an increasingly close association with Martin Heidegger (1889-1976).

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