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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"eternal return"”.
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Becoming Godless: Heidegger's Nietzsche and the Eternal Return
Nietzsches concept of eternal return best exemplifies his anti-theological thought, but it is often misread as either classical physics or a thought experiment. Insofar as Anglo-American and analytic interpretations reject eternal returns cosmology, their ethical implications are minimized. By …
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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults
… concerns Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of the eternal return of the same. By tracing the development of this notion in his thinking and its place in the tragic worldview, this essay will attempt to clarify the peculiar ethos presented by the concept. My analysis will primarily focus on …
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Irreconcilable Oppositions: "<em>Es Muss Sein</em>" and <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>
… German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's myth of eternal return. Through questioning Nietzsche's myth, Kundera creates an existential framework that rejects eternal return and illustrates his foundational concepts of lightness and weight. Kundera posits that in the absence of eternal return, life …
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Walking Nietzsche's tightrope: a thesis for no one
… of Nietzsche’s concepts of the will to power, eternal return, and the Übermensch are presented in an effort to build a coherent vision of Nietzsche’s work. The will to power has been interpreted in many ways, and in this text I make the case that it is a drive for self-cultivation and finding …
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Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings
… of typological design is harnessed in order to return power to form. All form is situated within a process of eternal return, and defamiliarisation is utilised as a strategy to ask questions about and through architecture. The interface between land and building is cast in a hierarchical role, …
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Nietzsche's conceptual personae of freedom
… themes such as will to power, nihilism, or eternal return. This thesis seeks to raise the profile of Nietzsche’s innovations on the subject of freedom by means of close readings of texts featuring three conceptual personae of Nietzschean freedom. These are the free spirit, the sovereign …
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Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy
… the limits we are all subject to in order to return us to the humble, but noble, earthbound beings that we are. Set amidst all the serious issues that Nietzsche's writings detail--the death of God, nihilism as the terminal sickness of the West, the will to power, the eternal return--comedy and …
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We make fiction because we are fiction: authorities displaced in the novels of Russell Hoban
… I rely on Mircea Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return (1965) in discussing the nature of myth-making in Riddley Walker. In the final chapter, I discuss in detail the mechanism of displacement in Pilgermann. By examining the role of the grotesque in the novel, I argue that Pilgermann can …
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Nietzsche's eternal recurrence of the same : the effect of logic abridgement, contradictions and inconsistencies
I will argue that the doctrine of eternal recurrence of the same no better interprets cosmology than pink elephants interpret zoology. I will also argue that the eternal-reiurn-of-the-same doctrine as what Magnus calls "existential imperative" is without possibility of application and thus futile. …