Time-Fetishes - The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence

This work is a reading of the way humans have attempted to talk about the nature of time, in particular the idea of the periodic creation and destruction of the world and the cosmos--eternal recurrence.

Info autore

Ned Lukacher

Riassunto

From the pre-Socratics to Ovid and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, this title traces the secret tradition of the idea of eternal recurrence and situates it as the grounding thought of Western philosophy and literature.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lukacher, Ned Lukacher, Ned Lukacher
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.01.1999
• EAN: 9780822322535
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2253-5
• Pagine: 192
• Peso: 567 g
• Illustrazioni: 5 figures
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata