PREFACE

I. INTRODUCTION

II. GENEALOGY AND FOUNDATIONS OF THE THOUGHT OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE

III. THE THOUGHT OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE AS “THE MOST SCIENTIFIC OF ALL HYPOTHESES”

IV. ON THE “SELFHOOD OF THE WHOLE” OR THE RELIGIOUS FEELING OF BELONGING TO THE WHOLE
(which necessarily precedes belief in the Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same)

V. THE THOUGHT OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE AS RELIGION

VI. THE PHILOSOPHICAL CHARACTER OF THE THOUGHT OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE — OR REASONS FOR BELIEVING IN ETERNAL RECURRENCE

VII. OTHER THINKERS ON ETERNAL RECURRENCE/ETERNAL RETURN
Walter Kaufmann. Karl Jaspers. Martin Heidegger. Joan Stambaugh. Pierre Klossowski. Bernd Magnus, et al.

VIII. INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION

APPENDIX I. Nietzsche’s Published Aphorisms on Eternal Recurrence

APPENDIX II. Nietzsche’s Unpublished Notes and Aphorisms on Eternal Recurrence

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