The eternal return: an immanent eschatology

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https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2023.024

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Nietzsche, Overbeck, eschatology, eternal return, resentment, ascetic ideal

Abstract

Franz Overbeck associates the eternal return with Nietzsche's passion for the ideal of the extreme (Ideals des ‘Extremen’), a drive for the ultimate that is related to the notion of the Nietzschean overhuman. The aim of this paper is to bring to light and analyze the Nietzschean understanding of the ultimate, starting from Overbeck and bringing to light the conception of Christian eschatology presupposed in Nietzsche’s analysis of ressentiment and the ascetic ideal. Explaining the eschatology from which Nietzsche starts will help to have a better understanding of the doctrine of the eternal return, exploring how the Christian heritage from which Nietzsche drank weighs on it.

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GUIBERT ELIZALDE, María. The eternal return: an immanent eschatology. Scientia et Fides. Online. 9 November 2023. Vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 233-250. [Accessed 1 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/SetF.2023.024.

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