No, Heidegger doesn't believe in a Will to Power. See his second Nietzsche lecture, from 1942 (? I think), where he reconciles the Will to Power and the Eternal Recurrence of the Same (apparently contradictory concepts in N) as two sides of N's attempt to ground the human essence in constant self-increase. (As Heidegger reads him.) For Heidegger Nietsche is the quintessential philisopher of the technological modern world -- unrooted, solipsistic, nihilistic, interested in nothing but the amassing of power for its own sake.
--- Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:
> Are you attributing to him the view of "truth" he
> rejected in the
> 1945 passage, quoted by Hugo Ott, explaining his
> involvement in the
> policy of “Gleichschaltung”?
>
> ‘Although the telegram mentions “Gleichschaltung”, I
> was using the
> term in the same way that I used the term “National
> Socialism”. It
> was not, and never had been, my intention to impose
> Party doctrine on
> the University; on the contrary, I wanted to bring
> about a
> transformation in thinking both within National
> Socialism and with
> regard to it. It is untrue to claim that National
> Socialism and the
> Party had no intellectual plans for the universities
> or for science
> and learning: they had them only too clearly, citing
> Nietzsche as
> their authority, who taught that “truth” does not
> have any content or
> substance of its own, but is merely an instrument of
> the will to
> power, i.e. a mere “idea”, a totally subjective
> concept. What was
> and is so grotesque about it, of course, is that
> this “politicized”
> science and learning is essentially in line with the
> teachings of
> Marxism and Communism on the “idea” and “ideology”.
> It was against
> this that my rectorship address of 23 May, given
> three days after I
> had sent the telegram [Heidegger confuses the 23rd
> with the 27th of
> May], was clearly and explicitly directed.” (Hugo
> Ott, Martin
> Heidegger: A Political Life, pp. 194-6)
>
> Ted
>
>
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