Between existence and the One. Nothingness in Schopenhauer and Heidegger

The aim of this contribution is to analyse the question concerning “nothingness” in an ideal dialogue between Schopenhauer and Heidegger. The relationship between those two philosophers is a research track not too much developed and, nonetheless, it may result extremely fruitful for the field of theoretical philosophy. By overcoming limited perspectives in which both philosophers have been imprisoned – Schopenhauer as the metaphysician of the will and Heidegger as the destroyer of metaphysics – it will be possible to reach a new interpretation which considers both thinkers engaged in the same effort of moving from existence to the one. As it will be possible to see, the concept of nothingness (very strong in both) will be the trace of that tension, its cypher, which will permit to put in contact the two thinkers beyond any historiographical distinction.