Philosophy as a will to power

The author takes a different view of Friedrich Nietzsche’s approach to philosophy through the concept of the will to power (der Wille zur Macht). He corrects his own previous view of this approach as a reductivism similar to Freudian psychoanalysis. On a number of different examples from within the history of philosophy and its external perceptions (especially by writers), the author demonstrates that the concept of “the will to power” can become one of the key ideas helping us to understand a philosophical activity almost throu ghout all of its history, from Antiquity to Postmodernism. In following this route however, the author emphasises, we should take into account a polymorphism and polysemantism of this concept and its irreducibility to any of its empirically evident appearances.