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For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to ""discover"" the truth of time and to determine whether time is infinite. This book recounts the history of a tradition that runs counter to the dominant tradition in Western metaphysics, which has sought to purify eternity of its temporal character. From the pre-Socratics and Ovid, to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche and Derrida, this book traces the secret tradition of the idea of eternal recurrence and situates it as the grounding thought of Western philosophy and literature. Drawing out the implications of Nietzsche's reinvention of the doctrine of return, Lukacher ranges across a broad spectrum of ancient and modern thinkers. Shakespeare's role in this history as the ""poet of time"" is particularly significant. As he makes transitions from literature to philosophy and psychoanalysis, Lukacher brings to the forefront a host of pre- and post-Christian texts in order to decipher in them an encounter with the thought of eternal recurrence.

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Time-Fetishes can be thought of as part of an impressive and consistent work in progress (rare these days), a work that manifests a will to return again and again to the troubled ground of its specters opened by the fissuring of Being and time. <br>--Herman Rapaport, Modern Language Quarterly

--Research News adn Opportunities in Science & Technology Time-Fetishes can be thought of as part of an impressive and consistent work in progress (rare these days), a work that manifests a will to return again and again to the troubled ground of its specters opened by the fissuring of Being and time. --Herman Rapaport, Modern Language Quarterly Lukacher's sweep is both broad and impressive as he traces the secret history of the idea of eternal recurrence from the pre-Socratics to Ovid, and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. --Seminary Coop Bookstore [An] impressive inquiry. . . . --Philip Leonard, Time and Society

--Research News adn Opportunities in Science & Technology Time-Fetishes can be thought of as part of an impressive and consistent work in progress (rare these days), a work that manifests a will to return again and again to the troubled ground of its specters opened by the fissuring of Being and time. --Herman Rapaport, Modern Language Quarterly [An] impressive inquiry. . . . --Philip Leonard, Time and Society Lukacher's sweep is both broad and impressive as he traces the secret history of the idea of eternal recurrence from the pre-Socratics to Ovid, and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. --Seminary Coop Bookstore

--Research News adn Opportunities in Science & Technology Lukacher's sweep is both broad and impressive as he traces the secret history of the idea of eternal recurrence from the pre-Socratics to Ovid, and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. --Seminary Coop Bookstore [An] impressive inquiry. . . . --Philip Leonard, Time and Society Time-Fetishes can be thought of as part of an impressive and consistent work in progress (rare these days), a work that manifests a will to return again and again to the troubled ground of its specters opened by the fissuring of Being and time. --Herman Rapaport, Modern Language Quarterly

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Ned Lukacher is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Daemonic Figures: Shakespeare and the Question of Conscience.

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