Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence: Two Facts of the Aeon. An Essay on Nietzsche [translate by Tomasz Sieczkowski] Cover Image

Wola mocy i wieczny powrót: dwa oblicza eonu. Esej o Nietzschem [przełożył Tomasz Sieczkowski]
Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence: Two Facts of the Aeon. An Essay on Nietzsche [translate by Tomasz Sieczkowski]

Author(s): Günther Wohlfart
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Will to Power; Eternal Recurrence; Aeon; Nietzsche;

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of the essay G. Wohlfart examines fragments (mostly unpublished) in which Nietzsche criticises freedom of the will as the 'calamitous invention of the philosophers'. Then, consequently, he describes the will to power as a will without willing, so that he can analyse the 'third transformation of the spirit' in Zarathustra, showing that it comes from Nietzsche's reading of Heraclitus' 52nd Fragment. The child from the third transformation is thus the aeon from Fragment 52, and the aeon is the 'world-child' whose 'playing in the world' bears the name 'will to power'.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 177-189
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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