De la eterna reîntoarcere la temporalitatea ecstatică. Variație heideggeriană pe o temă nietzscheană?
From Eternal Recurrence to Ecstatic Temporality: A Heideggerian Variation on a Nietzschean Theme?

Summary/Abstract: This article argues that Heidegger’s conception of ecstatic temporality can be read as emerging, in a decisive but non-explicit way, from Nietzsche’s thought of eternal recurrence. Its central claim is twofold. First, eternal recurrence is interpreted not as a cosmological doctrine, but as an existential thought experiment that already destabilizes linear, homogeneous time: it forces a restructuring of the relation between past, present, and future by requiring the affirmation of life as a whole. In this sense, Nietzsche’s thought anticipates key formal features of Heidegger’s analysis of temporality, especially the non-successive unity of future, having-been, and present. Second, the article argues that Heidegger’s ontological formalization of this Nietzschean intuition simultaneously transforms and displaces it. What in Nietzsche remains an irreducibly singular, non-transferable ethical ordeal becomes in Heidegger an existential-ontological structure articulated through being-toward-death, repetition, and historicality. The decisive break appears when Heidegger shifts from the affirmation of one’s own contingent life to the retrieval of inherited possibilities, and ultimately to the notions of destiny (Schicksal) and communal destiny (Geschick). Thus, Heidegger both radicalizes and betrays Nietzsche: he gives conceptual form to the temporal insight opened by eternal recurrence, but only by neutralizing its most uncompromising core – the strictly singular character of affirmation.

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