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Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same First Edition

by Karl Lowith (Author), J. Harvey Lomax (Translator), Bernd Magnus (Foreword)
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This long overdue English translation of Karl Löwith'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, Löwith'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 Löwith, the centerpiece of Nietzsche's thought is the doctrine of eternal recurrence, a notion which Löwith, 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? Löwith'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.
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    August 20, 1997
  6. Language
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"This superb translation fills a crying need. I think all competent Nietzsche scholars would rank Löwith's book among the top three or four books written on Nietzsche."Werner Dannhauser, Michigan State University

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"This superb translation fills a crying need. I think all competent Nietzsche scholars would rank Löwith's book among the top three or four books written on Nietzsche."―Werner Dannhauser, Michigan State University

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (August 20, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520065190
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520065192
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Americans have not been good at infiltratring any dynamic process. In my lifetime superpower thinking has attempted to shape global policies to serve a way of life that assumes insiders with power and a great number of victims of outmoded ways of thinking. Nietzsche's Zarathustra is described in Karl Lowith's book on Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same (1978, 1997) as a parable in which all knowledge is merely human creativity responding to new ways of dying. Quoting Nietzsche: "The sun of knowledge once again stands at noon; and the snake of eternity, curled up in rings, lies in the light of this sun." (p. 61).

Nietzsche teaches "the unity of this schism between the human will to a goal and the goalless revolving of the world." (p. 63). This is not likely to serve the aims of a group that has more power than Germans had in the European war from 1914 until 1917, when the United States of America declared war on Germany. Even Nietzsche wrote: "With this book I have entered a new `ring'--from now on in Germany I will probably be reckoned among the crazy." (p. 61).
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I've read many books about Nietzsche. This is by far the best. Unlike Heidegger, Lowith neither looks for nor finds himself in Nietzsche. Rather, he engages with Nietzsche's thought and really tries to understand what the latter understood by his "eternal recurrence of the same."

It's not an easy read, but it is well worth the effort. A marvelous work.
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