Philosophie als Literatur bei Nietzsche, Deleuze und Borges

Augenblick, Ewigkeit und Wiederholung als existenzielle Erfahrungen der Zeit

Irene Breuer

pp. 255-288

in: Francesco Campana, Mario Farina (eds), Philosophy and literature, Metodo 6 (1), 2018.

Abstract

The interweavement of philosophy and literature allows to gain a new sense from the own, lived experiences and to express them through narrations, as the paradigmatic works of Nietzsche, Deleuze and Borges show. They all deal with the inexorability of time and the fact of being at the mercy of the unwanted aspects of Being-in-the-world, the detailed reading of which allows us to assert that the event of the emergence of a new sense lies in the experience of the creative power of the instant, wherein the difference is introduced as the first principle through a Copernican turn and where the eternity expresses itself. In fact, the instant in its repetition results from a strike of chance, an assumption which leads to a new understanding not only of time as a network of destinies, but of eternity as extensive, intensive or ecstatic eternity. Being involved in this experience means to undergo an existential experience of time which produces an irrevocable change of the self.

Cited authors

Nietzsche Friedrich

Deleuze Gilles

Borges Jorge Luis