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Nietzsche’s Nihilism

Author(s): Valentin Kanawrow
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Nietzsche; Nihilism; Anti-nihilism; Ewige Wiederkehr; Ewige Wiederkunft; Will to power; Metaphysics; Humanism;

Summary/Abstract: I conceive of nihilism as a self-disintegration of absolute monological reason and self-dissolution of the monistic spirit that informs the ontology of the Modern Age. Nietzsche put a philosophical full stop to this process by reevaluating all values and proclaiming the death of God. But in the aspect of the Übermensch, his nihilism is anti-nihilistic. Yet his anti-nihilism is also nihilistic. These two aspects are intertwined in the two central ideas of Nietzschean philosophy: the „eternal recurrence“ and the „will to power“. In this study, I interpret the Nietzschean concepts ewige Wiederkunft, ewige Wiederkehr and Wille zur Macht. Nietzsche’s extreme, frenzied humanism stands alone as a sacred monument in European fundamental philosophy, but, regrettably, without forming an existentially cozy home for Man.

  • Issue Year: XX/2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 92-112
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bulgarian
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