Nietzsche S Philosophy Of The Eternal Recurrence Of The Same

Author : Karl Lowith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 587 pages
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Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520353633

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same by Karl Lowith Pdf

This long overdue English translation of Karl Löwith's magisterial study is a major event in Nietzsche scholarship in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Its initial publication was extraordinary in itself—a dissident interpretation, written by a Jew, appearing in National Socialist Germany in 1935. Since then, Löwith's book has continued to gain recognition as one of the key texts in the German Nietzsche reception, as well as a remarkable effort to reclaim the philosopher's work from political misappropriation. For Löwith, the centerpiece of Nietzsche's thought is the doctrine of eternal recurrence, a notion which Löwith, unlike Heidegger, deems incompatible with the will to power. His careful examination of Nietzsche's cosmological theory of the infinite repetition of a finite number of states of the world suggests the paradoxical consequences this theory implies for human freedom. How is it possible to will the eternal recurrence of each moment of one's life, if both this decision and the states of affairs governed by it appear to be predestined? Löwith's book, one of the most important, if seldom acknowledged, sources for recent Anglophone Nietzsche studies, remains a central text for all concerned with understanding the philosopher's work.

Author : Lawrence Hatab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135456313

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Nietzsche's Life Sentence by Lawrence Hatab Pdf

In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail. Hatab argues that eternal recurrence can and should be read literally, in just the way Nietzsche described it in the texts. The book offers a readable treatment of most of the core topics in Nietzsche's philosophy, all discussed in the light of the consummating effect of eternal recurrence. Although Nietzsche called eternal recurrence his most fundamental idea, most interpreters have found it problematic or needful of redescription in other terms. For this reason Hatab's book is an important and challenging contribution to Nietzsche scholarship.

Author : Philip J. Kain
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739126946

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Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence by Philip J. Kain Pdf

Nietzsche believed in the horror of existence: a world filled with meaningless sufferingA suffering for no reason at all. He also believed in eternal recurrence, the view that that our lives will repeat infinitely, and that in each life every detail will be exactly the same. Furthermore, it was not enough for Nietzsche that eternal recurrence simply be acceptedA he demanded that it be loved. Thus the philosopher who introduces eternal recurrence is the very same philosopher who also believes in the horror of existence. In this groundbreaking study, Philip Kain develops an insightful account of Nietzsche's strange and paradoxical view that a life of pain and suffering is perhaps the only life it really makes sense to want to live again.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060638419

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Nietzsche: Volumes One and Two by Martin Heidegger Pdf

A landmark discussion between two great thinkers, vital to an understanding of twentieth-century philosophy and intellectual history.

Author : Jonathan Bricklin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438456294

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The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time by Jonathan Bricklin Pdf

Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. “Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality?” James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers James’s question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with James’s psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist. Jonathan Bricklin is a Program Director at the New York Open Center and the editor of Sciousness.

Author : Krzysztof Michalski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691162195

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The Flame of Eternity by Krzysztof Michalski Pdf

The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time, which in turn cannot be conceived of without eternity. Eternity is a measure of time, but also, Michalski argues, something Nietzsche viewed first and foremost as a physiological concept having to do with the body. The body ages and decays, involving us in a confrontation with our eventual death. It is in relation to this brute fact that we come to understand eternity and the finitude of time. Nietzsche argues that humanity has long regarded the impermanence of our life as an illness in need of curing. It is this "pathology" that Nietzsche called nihilism. Arguing that this insight lies at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole, Michalski seeks to explain and reinterpret Nietzsche's thought in light of it. Michalski maintains that many of Nietzsche's main ideas--including his views on love, morality (beyond good and evil), the will to power, overcoming, the suprahuman (or the overman, as it is infamously referred to), the Death of God, and the myth of the eternal return--take on new meaning and significance when viewed through the prism of eternity.

Author : Anthony K. Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027329

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of History by Anthony K. Jensen Pdf

An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.

Author : Justin Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734452900

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Based Deleuze by Justin Murphy Pdf

A short, accessible meditation on the ideologically vexing French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995).

Author : J. Harvey Lomax
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0739104772

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The Paradox of Philosophical Education by J. Harvey Lomax Pdf

The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche's New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil is the first coherent interpretation of Nietzsche's mature thought. Author Harvey Lomax pays particular attention to the problematic concept of nobility which concerned the philosopher during his later years. This sensitive reading of Nietzsche examines nobility as the philosopher himself must have seen it: as a true and powerful longing of the human soul, interwoven with poetry, philosophy, religion, and aristocratic politics. Both a close textual analysis and a thoughtful reconceptualization of Beyond Good and Evil, The Paradox of Philosophical Education penetrates beyond the philosopher's mask of caustic irony to the face of the real Nietzsche: a lover of wisdom whose work sought to resurrect it in all its Socratic splendor

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374715748

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Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag Pdf

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition. Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are."

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226488110

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What a Philosopher Is by Laurence Lampert Pdf

The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche—classicist and ardent advocate of Wagner’s cultural renewal—become the philosopher of Will to Power and the Eternal Return? With this book, Laurence Lampert answers that question. He does so through his trademark technique of close readings of key works in Nietzsche’s journey to philosophy: The Birth of Tragedy, Schopenhauer as Educator, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, Human All Too Human, and “Sanctus Januarius,” the final book of the 1882 Gay Science. Relying partly on how Nietzsche himself characterized his books in his many autobiographical guides to the trajectory of his thought, Lampert sets each in the context of Nietzsche’s writings as a whole, and looks at how they individually treat the question of what a philosopher is. Indispensable to his conclusions are the workbooks in which Nietzsche first recorded his advances, especially the 1881 workbook which shows him gradually gaining insights into the two foundations of his mature thinking. The result is the most complete picture we’ve had yet of the philosopher’s development, one that gives us a Promethean Nietzsche, gaining knowledge even as he was expanding his thought to create new worlds.

Author : Bevis E. McNeil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030552961

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Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence by Bevis E. McNeil Pdf

This book examines the cogency and value of Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence, as an antidote to the nihilism resulting from the catastrophic event of ‘the death of God’. Its significance to Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole (when presented either as an imaginative thought experiment, a cosmological hypothesis, or a poetic metaphor) is analysed, alongside the manifold criticisms the idea has attracted. In this original reading of eternal recurrence, McNeil explores the strength of metaphorical meaning contained within Heraclitean and Stoic cosmologies, revealing their influence on Nietzsche’s own cosmology, along with their holistic approach to life which Nietzsche endorsed. Furthermore, an extensive critique of Heidegger’s interpretation of eternal recurrence is given. McNeil argues that Heidegger ignores not only the life-affirming Dionysian aspects of the concept, but also the Heraclitean sense of play evident in the cosmology, and the importance of this for developing a positive, celebratory attitude towards our lives and creative projects.

Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300092784

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Zarathustra's Secret by Joachim Köhler Pdf

In this groundbreaking biography, the author seeks to understand Nietzsche's philosophy through a reconstruction of his inner life. "Briskly written . . . almost a philosophical detective story."--"Volksblatt." 43 illustrations.

Author : Bernd Magnus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008009410

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Nietzsche's Existential Imperative by Bernd Magnus Pdf

Author : Will Dudley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521812504

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Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy by Will Dudley Pdf

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