Die toskanische Weimar-Fraktion

Abstract

Abstract This article takes as its starting point Philipp Felsch’s recent book telling the intriguing story of how, from the 1960s, the two Italian scholars Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari rediscovered and edited Nietzsche’s legacy, considered a highly problematic frame of reference in the aftermath of the Second World War. The essay outlines the Italian background – both institutional and ideological – of this enterprise. Additionally, it argues that Colli and Montinari’s philological scrutiny and quest for veracity also helped to lay the groundwork for the reception of such ‚non-binary‘ thinkers as Heidegger within political movements of both the (radical) left and right.