Nietzsche: The Superman, the Will to Power and the Eternal Return

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 280-295
Author(s):  
Harry Neumann
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Raniel Sta. Maria Reyes

Does talking about the triumph of the 1986 People Power EDSA Revolution still make sense nowadays? When the ideals of this glorious revolution are now nothing but contents of Philippine history textbooks and items of the culture industry, do we still need to re-imagine it? These are some of the reflective questions that will challenge and guide this paper‟s architecture. In what follows, the author will push all the possibilities for a Nietzschean re- thinking of the EDSA Revolution as “ the experience of difference and an exemplar of ascending life. ” In the first part, an account of the nature of EDSA revolution will be illustrated; while in the second, the principle of the „ Will to Power ‟ and „ Eternal Return ‟ will be explained using Gille s Deleuze‟s rhizomatic eyeglasses. In the third, the narrative of the revolution, i.e., the process on how the Epifanio Delos Santo Avenue (EDSA) turned into an arena for collective-political action will be delineated. Furthermore, the concept of difference will be utilized in explaining the dynamic occurrences produced by the Dionysian assemblage of Filipino bodies. In the last, the challenge of a different return of the said revolution will be explained.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Everton Nery Carneiro ◽  
Marcelo Máximo Purificação ◽  
Emerson Nery Carneiro

É preciso compreender o que é um vírus e principalmente sua ação. Assim, trabalhamos o referencial nietzschiano, que intenta a construção de uma base teórica para fundamentar sua hermenêutica/perspectiva sobre a vida, sendo esta na vida, inexistido separação nítida/perceptível entre ciência, teologia, arte e filosofia.  Seguiremos aqui com a biologia (ciência), não divorciada da teologia, visando fundamentar a concepção de vontade-de-poder, numa dimensão filosófica. Na primeira parte, desenvolvemos a compreensão de que caos e cosmo (teologicamente e filosoficamente) são indispensáveis na constituição orgânica e inorgânica, entendendo que o mundo é um caos eterno e qualquer projeção de padrão, ordem ou objetivo é um mero antropomorfismo. Assim, entendemos que a luta, o polemos está estabelecido e, tudo isso pode ocorrer antes mesmo do corpo apresentar quaisquer sinais de enfermidades. Na segunda parte, retomamos o conceito de “eterno retorno”, degustando o aforismo 341. Eterno retorno, que é uma construção filosófica nietzschiana, construído a partir da compreensão teológica de Eclesiastes 2. Por último movimento do texto, apresentamos o para não concluir, que a guisa de um final de artigo, produz pontos elucidativos, aqui um ao qual destacamos:  A vontade-de-poder trabalha uma hermenêutica ao constituir o mundo como uma relação entre campos de força instáveis e em constante conflito e autoconfiguração. AbstractIt is necessary to understand what a virus is and, in general terms, its action. Thus, we work with the Nietzschean framework, which attempts to build a theoretical basis to support his hermeneutics / perspective on life, which is in life, there is no clear / noticeable separation between science, theology and philosophy. We will continue here with biology (science), not divorced from theology, aiming to base the conception of will-to-power, in a philosophical dimension. In the first part, we developed the understanding that chaos and cosmos (theologically and philosophically) are indispensable in organic and inorganic constitution, understanding that the world is eternal chaos and any projection of pattern, order or objective is a mere anthropomorphism. Thus, we understand that the struggle, the polemic, is established and all of this can happen even before the body shows any signs of illness. In the second part, we return to the concept of "eternal return", tasting the aphorism 341. Finally, we present the not to conclude that, as a way of concluding the article, produces elucidating points, one of them here highlighted: The will-to-power hermeneutically constitutes the world as a relationship between unstable force fields and in constant conflict and self-configuration.É preciso compreender o que é um vírus e principalmente sua ação. Assim, trabalhamos o referencial nietzschiano, que intenta a construção de uma base teórica para fundamentar sua hermenêutica/perspectiva sobre a vida, sendo esta na vida, inexistido separação nítida/perceptível entre ciência, teologia, arte e filosofia.  Seguiremos aqui com a biologia (ciência), não divorciada da teologia, visando fundamentar a concepção de vontade-de-poder, numa dimensão filosófica. Na primeira parte, desenvolvemos a compreensão de que caos e cosmo (teologicamente e filosoficamente) são indispensáveis na constituição orgânica e inorgânica, entendendo que o mundo é um caos eterno e qualquer projeção de padrão, ordem ou objetivo é um mero antropomorfismo. Assim, entendemos que a luta, o polemos está estabelecido e, tudo isso pode ocorrer antes mesmo do corpo apresentar quaisquer sinais de enfermidades. Na segunda parte, retomamos o conceito de “eterno retorno”, degustando o aforismo 341. Eterno retorno, que é uma construção filosófica nietzschiana, construído a partir da compreensão teológica de Eclesiastes 2. Por último movimento do texto, apresentamos o para não concluir, que a guisa de um final de artigo, produz pontos elucidativos, aqui um ao qual destacamos:  A vontade-de-poder trabalha uma hermenêutica ao constituir o mundo como uma relação entre campos de força instáveis e em constante conflito e autoconfiguração.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunus Tuncel

Much has been said on particular feelings that appear in Nietzsche’s works, such as pity, revenge, altruism, guilt, shame, and ressentiment. But there has not been a significant study on Nietzsche’s overall teachings on feeling and emotion. What does Nietzsche mean by feeling and the related phenomena? Out of such disparate types of feelings and disparate reflections by Nietzsche on them, can one make sense or can one speak of a theory of feelings in Nietzsche? If so, how does this theory fit with his philosophy of value? On the other hand, how do his teachings relate to some of the later concepts of his philosophy such as the overhuman, the will to power and the eternal return of the same? While the book will contextualize Nietzsche’s emotive theory in relation to other emotive theories in the history of ideas, it will also explore Nietzsche’s influence on later generations in this area.   “Although Nietzsche is a brilliant and original philosopher of the emotions and passions there has been to date no concerted attempt to present and examine him as such. This admirable study by Yunus Tuncel goes a long way towards meeting this need and is essential reading for all scholars and readers of Nietzsche.” Keith Ansell-Pearson, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick “It’s remarkable there hasn’t been a good book on Nietzsche and the emotions – until this remarkable work by Yunus Tuncel. His insightful discussions range from ressentiment and Schadenfreude to a crucial emotion in these sad times: the feeling of power.” Graham Parkes, University of Vienna  


Author(s):  
Jorge Machin Lucas

En la obra novelística y ensayística de Juan Benet se puede detectar numerosas intertextualidades del filósofo alemán Friedrich Nietzsche que no han sido todavía adecuadamente investigadas. Entre los temas nietzscheanos que penetran la obra de Benet, los más importantes son la defensa del irracionalismo como vía de conocimiento que ayuda a explicar mejor la naturaleza de lo real, la oposición a sistemas epistemológicos cerrados, la defensa del fragmentarismo, del nihilismo, del fatalismo, el sentido de lo trágico que está presente en sus obras y en sus personajes, la dialéctica entre apolíneos y dionisiacos, el eterno retorno, la parodia del superhombre, la presencia de un sujeto descentrado por la fatalidad y por la ruina, la voluntad de poder durante la Guerra Civil española, y la preponderancia del estilo sobre el argumento. Se ofrecerán numerosos ejemplos desde su obra regionata y desde su ensayo. In the novelistic and essayistic works of Juan Benet, one can detect numerous intertextualities of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that have not yet been adequately researched. Among the Nietzschean themes in Benet, the most important are the defence of irrationalism as a way of knowledge that better explains the real, the opposition to closed epistemological systems, the defence of fragmentarism, nihilism, fatalism, the sense of tragedy that is present in his works and in his characters, the dialectic of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, the eternal return, the parody of the Superman, the presence of a subject decentered by fatality and ruin, the will to power during the Spanish Civil War, and the preponderance of style over plot. I will give many examples from Benet’s novels, above all those about Región, and from his essays. 


Author(s):  
Карина Викторовна Ануфриева

В статье рассматривается интерпретация взаимосвязи исторического опыта и многообразия культурных миров, предложенная О. Шпенглером. Демонстрируется влияние на ее формирование наследия И.В. фон Гёте и Ф. Ницше. В контексте работы раскрываются антропологические основания трактовки исторического опыта Шпенглером, обращающимся к его видению в ницшеанской перспективе вечного возвращения и воли к власти, генеалогической стратегии понимания прошлого. Отвергая субстанциалистско-прогрессистские классические схемы историософского теоретизирования, Шпенглер исходил из существования в истории монадологически непроницаемых для внешнего наблюдателя культурных миров. Их становление он понимал во многом под влиянием трактовки Гёте «прафеномена». В контексте статьи учение Шпенглера о понимании существующих во времени культурных миров на базе исторического опыта интерпретируется как вариант герменевтики. Характеризуются его имманентные противоречия. The article is focused on the interpretation of the relationship between historical experience and the diversity of cultural worlds proposed by O. Spengler. The influence of the heritage of J.W. von Goethe and F. Nietzsche on its formation is revealed. In the context of the work, the anthropological foundations of Spengler's interpretation of historical experience are studied, referring to his vision in the Nietzschean perspective of eternal return and the will to power, as well as the genealogical strategy of understanding the past. Rejecting the substantialist-progressive classical schemes of historiosophical theorizing, Spengler proceeded from the existence of monadologically impenetrable cultural worlds in history. He understood their formation largely under the influence of Goethe's views on the «praphenomen». In the context of the article, Spengler's approach to the understanding of cultural worlds existing in time on the basis of historical experience is interpreted as a variant of hermeneutics. His doctrine immanent contradictions are analyzed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Henrik Rydenfelt
Keyword(s):  

Janus Head ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Clay Lewis ◽  

This paper looks at authoritarianism as an expression of nihilism. In spite of his rigorous critique of Platonism, I suggest that Nietzsche shares with Plato an authoritarian vision that is rooted in the cyclical experience of time. The temporality of the eternal return unveils a vista of cosmic nihilism that cannot possibly be endured. In the absence of metaphysical foundations, the vital will to power is assigned an impossible task – to create meaning from nothing. I suggest that when confronted with the horror of the ungrounded void, the self-overcoming of nihilism reverts to self-annihilation. The declaration that God is dead becomes the belief that death is God. I trace Nietzsche’s cosmic nihilism back to Plato’s myths and the poetic vision of Sophocles and Aeschylus. I argue that Nietzsche’s overcoming of nihilism is itself nihilistic. However, this does not mean that Nietzsche’s project is as a complete failure. On the contrary, I suggest that Nietzsche’s deepest insight is that the good life does not consist of the pursuit of truth, but the alleviation of suffering.


1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Humphries

This article results from reading Lather's Getting Smart (1991) and Hammersley's The Politics of Social Research (1995). The theme is the debates between ‘traditional’ research approaches and ‘emancipatory’ research approaches. It is argued that these debates are based on stereotypical views which obscure important characteristics held in common, and both require to be interrogated. The article examines two of these characteristics, appeals to a metanarrative of emancipation and the will to power, and considers the implications of the privileging of scientific knowledge over other forms of knowledge. It concludes by considering the possibilities for a praxis-oriented research which may lead to possibilities for emancipatory action.


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