Nietzsche’s Trial: A poetic allegory of eternal recurrence and the transformation of villains
September 12, 2024 14:34 Source: Chinese Social Sciences Magazine Author: Li Yaowen

bet365 Play online games Nietzsche issued a test in "The Science of Joy" using "If life is an eternal cycle",Forcing everyone to become "little people" and think about eternal recurrence in an existential sense。Nietzsche planned “nothingness” for this trial、Crush、Three endings of "Transformation",And the mechanism of the transformation of the villain is revealed in the chapter "Illusions and Mysteries" in the third volume of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"。On the surface,"Illusions and Mysteries" tells a fable: the black snake transformed by the dwarf was bitten by Zarathustra who transformed into a shepherd,The latter jumped up,Become Superman。In essence,Dwarf corresponds to the ending of nothingness,And always accompanied by a fall into nihilism、The risk of destruction by becoming a black snake;The shepherd corresponds to the outcome of the trial: if you endure the eternal cycle without being crushed,Then the trial is passed,Villain transformed into superman,The eternal recurrence is also updated from diachronic to synchronic。Synchronic reincarnation truly realizes the eternal reincarnation of the same person in a non-diachronic moment,Under its blessing,Even if only for a moment,It can also be infinitely magnified into an affirmation of everything。Yu is,Everything is over、Both the present and the future will be saved in this divine affirmation。

 Keywords:Nietzsche, eternal recurrence, allegory, synchrony, diachrony

 AuthorLi Yaowen,PhD candidate, Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Hamburg。

Editor: Zhang Jing
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