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Criticizing the tendency to treat Nietzsche as a literary figure or as a vitalist in the tradition of Bergson, Simmel, and Klages, Lowith situates Nietzsche squarely within the history of Western philosophy. He takes issue with the position of Jaspers that Nietzsche is best read…
"For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to 'discover' the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls with the cycles of uni…
"For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to 'discover' the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls with the cycles of uni…
"For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to 'discover' the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls with the cycles of uni…
"For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to 'discover' the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls with the cycles of uni…
"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…
"McNeil succeeds in giving to eternal recurrence the pivotal place in Nietzsche's philosophy that it had for Nietzsche himself."--David E. Cooper, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Durham University, UK. "McNeil throws fresh light on what is arguably Nietzsche's most controversi…
This volume is a general interpretation of Nietzsche's works, with emphasis on the "doctrine of eternal recurrence," which Nietzsche considered his most significant philosophic contribution. Magnus disposes of traditional schools of interpreta-tion and argues a new thesis. First…