| Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same Contributor(s): Lowith, Karl (Author), Lomax, J. Harvey (Translator), Magnus, Bernd (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520065190 ISBN-13: 9780520065192 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $68.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1997 Annotation: "This superb translation fills a crying need. I think all competent Nietzsche scholars would rank Lowith's book among the top three or four books written on Nietzsche."--Werner Dannhauser, Michigan State University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 96019802 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.21" W x 9.27" (1.31 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This long overdue English translation of Karl L with's magisterial study is a major event in Nietzsche scholarship in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Its initial publication was extraordinary in itself--a dissident interpretation, written by a Jew, appearing in National Socialist Germany in 1935. Since then, L with's book has continued to gain recognition as one of the key texts in the German Nietzsche reception, as well as a remarkable effort to reclaim the philosopher's work from political misappropriation. For L with, the centerpiece of Nietzsche's thought is the doctrine of eternal recurrence, a notion which L with, unlike Heidegger, deems incompatible with the will to power. His careful examination of Nietzsche's cosmological theory of the infinite repetition of a finite number of states of the world suggests the paradoxical consequences this theory implies for human freedom. How is it possible to will the eternal recurrence of each moment of one's life, if both this decision and the states of affairs governed by it appear to be predestined? L with's book, one of the most important, if seldom acknowledged, sources for recent Anglophone Nietzsche studies, remains a central text for all concerned with understanding the philosopher's work. |