A report from the archives of the Monument to Eternal Return: Comgar

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Craig Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Eternal Return

The Determination of Sense via Deleuze and Blanchot: Paradoxes of the Habitual, the Immemorial, and the Eternal Return

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Brently Young
Keyword(s):  
Eternal Return

Eternal return is the paradox that accounts for the interplay between difference and repetition, a dynamic at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy, and Blanchot's approach to this paradox, even and especially through what it elides, further illuminates it. Deleuze draws on Blanchot's characterisations of difference, forgetting, and the unlivable to depict the ‘sense’ produced via eternal return, which, for Blanchot, is where repetition implicates or ‘carries’ pure difference. However, for Deleuze, difference and the unlivable are also developed by the living repetition or ‘contraction’ of habit, which results in his distinctive characterization of ‘force’, ‘levity’, and sense in eternal return.

The Time of Drama in Nietzsche and Deleuze: A Life as Performative Interaction

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno Böhler
Keyword(s):  
Recurrent Events ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
The Third ◽  
Close Study

Nietzsche's model of eternal return triggers a drama of affirmation, the overcoming of a simple miming of our ancestors in favour of an active participation in the counter-actualisation of hidden potentials in recurrent events. Based on a close study of Zarathustra's struggle to free himself from a suffocating nihilism, the paper focuses on the revelatory caesura that ushers in what Deleuze calls the third synthesis of time, a time of ‘doing’ rather than reflection.

Into The Void

Janus Head ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Clay Lewis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Impossible Task ◽  
Poetic Vision

This paper looks at authoritarianism as an expression of nihilism. In spite of his rigorous critique of Platonism, I suggest that Nietzsche shares with Plato an authoritarian vision that is rooted in the cyclical experience of time. The temporality of the eternal return unveils a vista of cosmic nihilism that cannot possibly be endured. In the absence of metaphysical foundations, the vital will to power is assigned an impossible task – to create meaning from nothing. I suggest that when confronted with the horror of the ungrounded void, the self-overcoming of nihilism reverts to self-annihilation. The declaration that God is dead becomes the belief that death is God. I trace Nietzsche’s cosmic nihilism back to Plato’s myths and the poetic vision of Sophocles and Aeschylus. I argue that Nietzsche’s overcoming of nihilism is itself nihilistic. However, this does not mean that Nietzsche’s project is as a complete failure. On the contrary, I suggest that Nietzsche’s deepest insight is that the good life does not consist of the pursuit of truth, but the alleviation of suffering.

scholarly journals The Eternal return: analysis of the temporal conception in the Dark series of Netflix

Paakat ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lenin Vladimir Paladines Paredes
Keyword(s):  
Eternal Return
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