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The Flame of Eternity : An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought / Krzysztof Michalski.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691162195
  • 9781400840212
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193 23
LOC classification:
  • B3318.E88 M5313 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Nihilism -- 2. Time Flows, the Child Plays -- 3. Good and Evil, Joy and Pain -- 4. Reason, Which Hurts -- 5. The Time Is at Hand -- 6. The Death of God -- 7. The Flame of Eternity -- 8. Eternal Love -- 9. Our Insatiable Desire for More Future: On the Eternal Return of the Same -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Nihilism -- 2. Time Flows, the Child Plays -- 3. Good and Evil, Joy and Pain -- 4. Reason, Which Hurts -- 5. The Time Is at Hand -- 6. The Death of God -- 7. The Flame of Eternity -- 8. Eternal Love -- 9. Our Insatiable Desire for More Future: On the Eternal Return of the Same -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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