Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence

ISBN-13: 9780415967587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 216 str.

Lawrence Hatab

Opis

Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: the doctrine of eternal return, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Nietzsche’s Challenge to the Tradition; Chapter 2 Retrieving Greek Tragedy; Chapter 3 Morality, Nihilism, and Life Affirmation; Chapter 4 Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche’s Texts; Chapter 5 Making Belief; Chapter 6 Calling Witnesses; Chapter 7 The Trouble with Repetition; Epilogue; The Dancer;

O autorze

Lawrence J. Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. He is well known for his work in continental philosophy, and is a leading interpreter of Nietzsche. His best-known book is A Nietzschean Defence of Democracy (1995).