Nietzsches Thought of Eternal Return (Current Continental Research) [Paperback]

Joan Stambaugh (Author)

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• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer (May 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0819169110
• ISBN-13: 978-0819169112
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The boldness and succinct clarity of this book demands it restoration to the active booklist.
Anyone who claims to "get" what Nietzsche's Eternal Return of the Same means, points to, indicates... whatever it does... without the kind of labor offered by Ms Stambaugh is a charlatan. She, on the other hand, takes on this notion and supplies rigor and freedom from pre-conception.
As a result, each page sparked notions of what this "thought" comprises.
In my reading she proposes that Nietzsche was "invaded" (as he said), by a sense that recast time. Being struck by this force, the Moment unfolds in stirrings of great depth and power such that it is both a fullness that bodes forth and ends, with all that eternity bears; and so on it goes, a "ring of rings" that resounds (for it is best "heard" -- "Listen," Zarathustra exclaims.)
This is not time as succession, but living bursting into a scene; and bearing all and everything in every moment, such power splays out for living to encounter, such as it can.
Nietzsche wrote into the teeth of interpretation and reaction and not out of the ether of abstraction. This notion then does not find its way into narrative, but instead opens out its own space in order to be encountered by the willing, those who will, whose power to grow and give way are equal to such a way.
It is clearly not a notion for fools, such as the reviewer above; and it is not a notion for ones seeking the assurance of their own way. And this book is worthy of the notion itself. Stambaugh demonstrates how much she is an awesome reader of the texts that bode a new age.
This book deserves a better fate than oblivion; it need not love the fate it has been given.
Return this book to the corpus.