La Volonté de puissancen'existe pas

by Mazzino Montinari

Sous le titre "La Volonté de puissance" n'existe pas, nous avons rassemblé quatre essais de Mazzino Montinari, traitant des problèmes posés par l'édition des écrits de Nietzsche et plus particulièrement de la question de ce faux manifeste et des conséquences de sa publication sur la réception et l'interprétation de l'oeuvre de Nietzsche. Présentés par Paolo D'lorio et publiés une première fois en 1996 alors que reparaissaient d'anciennes éditions de ce faux-livre, ces essais viennent rappeler qu'un travail de vingt années a permis de lire enfin ce que Nietzsche a vraiment écrit, et qui diffère souvent radicalement de ce qu'on a voulu lire de cet homme qui s'est "adressé à son temps avec une dureté véritable".

Genres: Philosophy

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1998

About the author

Mazzino Montinari (Lucca, April 4, 1928 – Firenze, November 24, 1986) was an Italian philosopher, germanist, philologer and critic.

He is considered of the greatest editors and intepreters of Friedrich Nietzsche's work.
He confuted that Nietzsche never wrote a book called Der Wille zur Macht (The Will to Power) and that all the editing and the editions published by his sister and other editors were manipulated and too much corrupted to be reputed genuine and reliable to Nietzsche's philosophy.

He published his studies with the renomated Italian publishing house Adelphi, he also founded the international magazine Nietzsche-Studien in 1972. With his critical studies and translation of Nietzsche's oeuvre, Montinari gave the most important contribution to Nietzsche interpretation and comprehension.

Reviews

[Camille]

Court ouvrage qui revient sur la genèse de ce qu'il faut bien appeler un faux : La volonté de puissance de Nietzsche. Ce n'est pas le concept de volonté de puissance qui n'existe pas, mais le livre éponyme : c'est un pot pourri d'aphorismes, souvent écrit à des périodes différentes, de citations tronqués ou bien rassemblé par la force en un seul aphorisme. Comme toujours quand on parle de Nietzsche, on en revient à sa soeur, qui il faut le noter, intenta un procès (au moment de l'entrée de l'oeuvre de Nietzsche dans le domaine public allemand) en faisant reconnaître La volonté de puissance comme un livre de sa personne !

[Jasmine · Rating 2 out of 5]

This hasn't be officially translated to English yet, and I read it in a machine translation.

It provides crucial context into both how Nietzsche's archives were managed in the years after the onset of his insanity around 1894 as well as the philosophy guiding the assembly of the Montinari and Colli editions that are now the academic standard (although also lagging in their translation to english, unfortunately... I am, however, grateful for their digital archive).

The thrust of the argument—that The Will To Power doesn't exist—fell rather flat to me. It seemed one born out of fan purism: nothing but the aphorisms in the order in which Nietzsche arranged them with the title he picked would satisfy this fan. Never mind that editors throughout the ages have overstepped over author creations to a far greater extent.

I was persuaded by R. Kevin Hill's introduction to the Penguin edition of The Will To Power that even Nietzsche's rejection of writing a manuscript of this title or form should not be taken at face value:

Nietzsche's abandonment of The Will To Power project seems to imply frustration with his inability to fashion them into a coherent whole, rather than any rejection of their content. If that is correct, the editors may have done him a favour, not a disservice.

[Ali Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Any reader of Nietzsche must read this book, which debunks falsifications of Nietzsche's works, and first of all the false book of Nietzsche, still widely diffused today despite it's un-scientific character, "The will of power", which is the product of a manipulation of his sister.

Wonder when this book will be translated to English...

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Très bon livre pour mettre fin aux hypothèses sur l’antisémitisme présumé de FN, sur l’histoire de ses écrits posthumes + des petites anecdotes sur son lama de sœur