Don Dombowsky

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Don Dombowsky is a Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy at Bishop’s University in Canada. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Machiavellian Politics (2004) and Nietzsche and Napoleon: The Dionysian Conspiracy (2014), and co-editor of Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: An Edited Anthology (2008).

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Jan 8, 2026 ∙ 19 min

Heidegger on Nietzsche’s Political Ontology and Technoscientific Animalism

The following short essay was written as a supplement to an essay published in 2018 [1] which provided an analytic description of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s political philosophy and vindicated Heidegger’s view of this philosophy as fundamentally technological in nature, representing the final stage of Western metaphysics. As Heidegger put it, ‘in the thought of will to power, Nietzsche anticipates the metaphysical ground of the consummation of the modern age’, making him the ‘...