Contents

Editor's Preface

PART ONE: THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME

1. The Doctrine of Eternal Return as the Fundamental Thought of Nietzsche's Metaphysics

2. The Genesis of the Doctrine of Return

3. Nietzsche's First Communication of the Doctrine of Return

4. "Incipit tragoedia"

5. The Second Communication of the Doctrine of Return

6. "On the Vision and the Riddle"

7. Zarathustra's Animals

8. "The Convalescent"

9. The Third Communication of the Doctrine of Return

10. The Thought of Return in the Suppressed Notes

11. The Four Notes Dated August 1881

12. Summary Presentation of the Thought: Being as a Whole as Life and Force; the World as Chaos

13. Suspicions Concerning the "Humanization" of Beings

14. Nietzsche's Proof of the Doctrine of Return

15. The Ostensibly Scientific Procedure of Proof. Philosophy and Science

16. The Character of "Proof" for the Doctrine of Return

17. The Thought of Return as a Belief

18. The Thought of Return-and Freedom

19. Retrospect on the Notes from the Period of The Gay Science, 1881-82

20. Notes from the Zarathustra Period, 1883-84

21. Notes from the Period of "The Will to Power," 1884-88

22. The Configuration of the Doctrine of Return

23. The Domain of the Thought of Return: The Doctrine of Return as the Overcoming of Nihilism

24. Moment and Eternal Recurrence

25. The Essence of a Fundamental Metaphysical Position; The Possibility of Such Positions in the History of Western Philosophy

26. Nietzsche's Fundamental Metaphysical Position

PART TWO: WHO IS NIETZSCHE'S ZARATHUSTRA?

Analysis by David Farrell Krell

Glossary

Martin Heidegger - Nietzsche II. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same

Ereignis