i have a general question concerning heidegger's understanding of
time, especially as it relates to nietzsche's ER. i have asked this
question of several heideggerians before, but it has never been answered:
Is heidegger's understanding of time more or less an extensio of Kant's,
time as the _form_ in which events occur, unfold in a kind of static,
irreversible container? or is his conceptio of time more in line with
Nietzsche's eternal return, that is, time as a dimension, indeed the
essence of force, _physis_? or neither one of these? i am usually told
that his concept of time is really not either one of those, but am then
given no more to go on.
as i understand the ER, the kind of being-in that goes along with the
concept of time as form in the kantian sense (a kind of forth dimension
perhaps) is exactuly what nietzsche is trying to get away from. nietzsche's
concept of time as ER is thought against the idea fo form such that
each moment, present, contains within itself both past and future. Thus
time for nietzsche does not contain the flow or flux of becoming, thus
elimiating the inside/outside problem of derrida. there is no time of
flux _there_, in which becoming itself occurs. this is simply a kind of
extreme spatialization, of which heidegger often speaks. so what is
primordial temporality in heidegger? time in nietzsche is the essence
of force, the synthesis of which is the will to power's eternal
repetition of finite force. i have taken most of this from Joan
Stambaugh's _The Problem of Time in Nietzsche_.
chris
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time, especially as it relates to nietzsche's ER. i have asked this
question of several heideggerians before, but it has never been answered:
Is heidegger's understanding of time more or less an extensio of Kant's,
time as the _form_ in which events occur, unfold in a kind of static,
irreversible container? or is his conceptio of time more in line with
Nietzsche's eternal return, that is, time as a dimension, indeed the
essence of force, _physis_? or neither one of these? i am usually told
that his concept of time is really not either one of those, but am then
given no more to go on.
as i understand the ER, the kind of being-in that goes along with the
concept of time as form in the kantian sense (a kind of forth dimension
perhaps) is exactuly what nietzsche is trying to get away from. nietzsche's
concept of time as ER is thought against the idea fo form such that
each moment, present, contains within itself both past and future. Thus
time for nietzsche does not contain the flow or flux of becoming, thus
elimiating the inside/outside problem of derrida. there is no time of
flux _there_, in which becoming itself occurs. this is simply a kind of
extreme spatialization, of which heidegger often speaks. so what is
primordial temporality in heidegger? time in nietzsche is the essence
of force, the synthesis of which is the will to power's eternal
repetition of finite force. i have taken most of this from Joan
Stambaugh's _The Problem of Time in Nietzsche_.
chris
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