The Well of Eternity
In an effort to clear up misunderstanding of his previous writings and avoid future misinterpretations, Nietzsche assessed his own work in the autobiographical Ecce Homo and offered readers pointers for properly reading and understanding his writings. The Well of Eternity addresses Nietzsche's thinking on time and temporality in eight of his works, beginning with The Birth of Tragedy and culminating in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, using the pointers described in Ecce Homo. Its detailed exploration highlights three points: how central the matter of growth and maturation was to Nietzsche's sense of what it is to be a human being; how indispensable his own maturational struggles and advances were to his achievement of reflective insight; and how the ideas, which are the culmination of his own reflection on time and temporality, not only have their enabling grounds in the human capacity ("power"), which his own maturational advance eventually brings him, but also have their intended reflective meaning and make their claim to truth from the reflective standpoint defined by participation in such power.
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The Well of Eternity
In an effort to clear up misunderstanding of his previous writings and avoid future misinterpretations, Nietzsche assessed his own work in the autobiographical Ecce Homo and offered readers pointers for properly reading and understanding his writings. The Well of Eternity addresses Nietzsche's thinking on time and temporality in eight of his works, beginning with The Birth of Tragedy and culminating in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, using the pointers described in Ecce Homo. Its detailed exploration highlights three points: how central the matter of growth and maturation was to Nietzsche's sense of what it is to be a human being; how indispensable his own maturational struggles and advances were to his achievement of reflective insight; and how the ideas, which are the culmination of his own reflection on time and temporality, not only have their enabling grounds in the human capacity ("power"), which his own maturational advance eventually brings him, but also have their intended reflective meaning and make their claim to truth from the reflective standpoint defined by participation in such power.
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The Well of Eternity

The Well of Eternity

by Richard Gotshalk
The Well of Eternity

The Well of Eternity

by Richard Gotshalk

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In an effort to clear up misunderstanding of his previous writings and avoid future misinterpretations, Nietzsche assessed his own work in the autobiographical Ecce Homo and offered readers pointers for properly reading and understanding his writings. The Well of Eternity addresses Nietzsche's thinking on time and temporality in eight of his works, beginning with The Birth of Tragedy and culminating in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, using the pointers described in Ecce Homo. Its detailed exploration highlights three points: how central the matter of growth and maturation was to Nietzsche's sense of what it is to be a human being; how indispensable his own maturational struggles and advances were to his achievement of reflective insight; and how the ideas, which are the culmination of his own reflection on time and temporality, not only have their enabling grounds in the human capacity ("power"), which his own maturational advance eventually brings him, but also have their intended reflective meaning and make their claim to truth from the reflective standpoint defined by participation in such power.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761835028
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/30/2006
Pages: 516
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Richard Gotshalk is a retired Professor who taught for 20 years at The Pennsylvania State University and for 13 years at the University of Montana (Missoula). He received his M.A. and B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has published nine books, including this one.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Prelude: Retrospect and Reflections
Chapter 3 1. Ecce Homo
Chapter 4 2. Nietzsche's Expanded Retrospect on his Life and his Writings
Chapter 5 3. Life, Time, and Reflection: Initial Thoughts
Part 6 Part I. Youth's Statement
Chapter 7 4. The Birth of Tragedy
Chapter 8 5. The Utility and Harmfulness of History for Life
Chapter 9 6. Schopenhauer as Educator
Chapter 10 7. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth
Part 11 Interlude: A Pause
Chapter 12 8. The Turn
Part 13 Part II. Youthful Reaction Against 'Youth'
Chapter 14 9. Human all-too-Human
Chapter 15 10. Dawn
Chapter 16 11. Gay Science
Part 17 Interlude: A Second Pause
Part 18 12. The Return
Part 19 Part III. Maturity
Chapter 20 13. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Chapter 21 14. Thoughts on Time and Temporality
Part 22 Notes
Part 23 Bibliography
Part 24 Index
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