TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michalski,Krzysztof
AU  - Paloff,Benjamin
TI  - The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought 
SN  - 9780691162195
AV  - B3318.E88 M5313 2017
U1  - 193 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Eternal return
KW  - Eternity
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Apocalypse
KW  - Gospel of Matthew
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Nietzsche
KW  - Phaedo
KW  - Plato
KW  - Socrates
KW  - Zarathustra
KW  - chance
KW  - child at play
KW  - concepts
KW  - contemporary culture
KW  - death
KW  - deception
KW  - diversification
KW  - divinity
KW  - envy
KW  - eternal love
KW  - eternity
KW  - evil
KW  - falsehood
KW  - fire
KW  - good
KW  - grazing cows
KW  - guilt
KW  - history
KW  - human certainty
KW  - human condition
KW  - human life
KW  - human nature
KW  - humanity
KW  - knowledge
KW  - life
KW  - lived moment
KW  - love
KW  - memory
KW  - modern science
KW  - moral concepts
KW  - morality
KW  - morals
KW  - necessity
KW  - negation of life
KW  - nihilism
KW  - nihilistic culture
KW  - overman
KW  - passing
KW  - peace
KW  - philosophy
KW  - power
KW  - rationality
KW  - reason
KW  - rejection
KW  - relativistic culture
KW  - science
KW  - serenity
KW  - suprahuman
KW  - time
KW  - will to power
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840212?locatt=mode:legacy
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