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

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Nietzsche's Life Sentence Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence

By Lawrence Hatab Copyright 2004
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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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: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail. Hatab argues that eternal recurrence can and should be read literally, in just the way Nietzsche described it in the texts. The book offers a... Read more
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;

Biography

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).

"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

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