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

ISBN-13: 9780415967594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 216 str.

Lawrence Hatab

Opis

In this book 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. The book will offer a readable treatment of most of the core topics in Nietzsche's philosophy, all discussed in the light of the consummating effect of eternal recurrence. Although Nietzsche himself called the doctrine of eternal recurrence his most fundamental idea, very little has been written on it, making Hatab's book an important and much needed contribution to the scholarship on Nietzsche.

Recenzje

"In his latest book, Lawrence Hatab brings together several threads from his previous writing into an elegant expression that examines a wide range of Nietzsche's thought through the single prism of his notoriously obscure conception of 'Eternal Recurrence.'" --Anthony K. Jensen, Emory University, Journal of the History of Philosophy

"Hatab's new book on Nietzsche is a brilliant treatment of this seminal thinker's key idea of the eternal recurrence of the same. It is the fruit of a long engagement with the philosophy of Nietzsche, not merely in a propositional manner, but also in the form of an existential commitment." - Horst Hutter, NietzscheCircle.com

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).