Flame of Eternity

Krzysztof Michalski is professor of philosophy at Boston University and Warsaw University, as well as rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of Logic and Time: An Essay on Husserl's Theory of Meaning.

• Preface vii Chapter 1: Nihilism 1 Chapter 2: Time Flows, the Child Plays 16 Chapter 3: Good and Evil, Joy and Pain 32 Chapter 4: Reason, Which Hurts 46 Chapter 5: The Time Is at Hand 62 Chapter 6: The Death of God 75 Chapter 7: The Flame of Eternity 90 Chapter 8: Eternal Love 124 Chapter 9: Our Insatiable Desire for More Future: On the Eternal Return of the Same 150 Notes 209 Index 225

"There was a deep continuity between the vision set out in The Flame of Eternity and the life [Krzysztof Michalski] lived... His thought informed his life; and his life, as a thinker, a lover, a friend, is integrated in moving ways into his final work."--Tamsin Shaw, New York Review of Books "[V]aluable... The author rightly grasps Nietzsche's uniqueness and originality, anticipating the crisis of European thought about to unfold with the onset of the 20th century."--Choice "[T]his is a marvelous book, absorbing, inspired and full of insights. It will be of interest to Nietzsche scholars, and to all those--not necessarily academics--with an interest in modern European thought, in religious studies, and in the connections between these disciplines."--Viola Brisolin, European Legacy