Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche's eternal return and the question of time

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378664488

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Nietzsche, Heidegger, Eternal return, time.

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to analyze Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche's eternal return, placing the issue of time as a central problem. For Heidegger, the philosopher of Zarathustra continues to be metaphysical, but it also constitutes the finishing of metaphysics. The eternal return has fundamental importance in this end of metaphysics, since thinking the instant as eternal, metaphysics is suppressed from within. In the lectures by Nietzsche I, the interpretation of the eternal return is intertwined with this end of metaphysics and inversion of Platonism, thereby revealing a conception of time contrary to metaphysics. On the other hand, in the 1950s, in Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? and the lecture What does it mean to think ?, Heidegger expands further into the interpretation of the eternal return and time, seeing in nietzschean philosophy not only the finish of metaphysics, but also the possibility of the passage to the poetic.

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Author Biography

Newton Pereira Amusquivar Júnior, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Master in Philosophy at the State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.

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2021-04-30 — Updated on 2022-03-29

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Amusquivar Júnior, N. P. (2022). Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s eternal return and the question of time. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 12(1), e10. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378664488 (Original work published April 30, 2021)