Seria Nietzsche um heideggeriano? Uma resposta a Vinicius Figueiredo

The text is a response to Vinicius Figueiredo's article "Seria Nietzsche a Kantiano?" ("Should Nietzsche be considered a kantian thinker?"), published in these Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã (v.20, n.1), which, in turn, critically reviews my book Nietzsche, perspectivismo e democracia: um espírito livre em guerra contra o dogmatismo (Nietzsche, Perspectivism and democracy: a free spirit at war against dogmatism) (Saraiva, 2013). In general terms, I try to show that, if Nietzsche is not interpreted as a continuer of the Kantian critical project (rooted in the German Aufklärung), he ends up getting closer, also with respect to the understanding of truth, to those philosophies that, as opposed to the epistemology that prevails in the West, seek a direct access to being - which is the case of Heidegger's philosophy, which could be seen as the culmination of a tradition that begins with the Romantics.