The World as Will and Presentation, to realize on the one hand how deeply immersed he is in the subject-ist tradition, as Leibniz had stamped it after Descartes, and on the other how close he stands to Nietzsche, whose debt to him, according to personal testimony, is long since a commonplace.¹ As we come, then, to Nietzsche's philosophy of universal Willing, we are somewhat prepared for the thesis that Nietzsche is the "consummation" of metaphysics in the West. Somewhat! Before we can appreciate the full import of this, however, we must first see it in some detail." /> Nietzsche - Richardson William | sdvig press