Eternity's Death in Modernity: A Case of Murder? Of Resurrection?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2020.1766886" target="_blank" >10.1080/09672559.2020.1766886</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Eternity's Death in Modernity: A Case of Murder? Of Resurrection?
Original language description
The death of God and the death of eternity stand at the portals of modernity. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, which Alexandre Kojève called the modern counterpart to the Bible, concludes with the death of God. Despite Hegel having shown that everything, even God, has a time nucleus, at the level of 'Absolute Knowing', he takes eternity back into play, conceiving it as a structure of time, rather than a realm outside time. Thus, he wrenches a concept of eternity from time itself. Even though Hegel and Nietzsche are philosophical antipodes in many senses, we notice an ambivalent relation in Nietzsche's works towards eternity as well. Nietzsche, the author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the other 'anti-Bible' of modernity, proclaims eternity to be dead, while at the same time conceiving of an eternal recurrence, that of a dynamic eternity. First, it is argued that for both, eternity is essentially related to action and deed. Second, both highlight the importance of the past in reaching an adequate understanding of time and with it of eternity. Consequently, it is argued that modernity does not offer a vision of the future but a vibrant and often painful consciousness of the past. Postmodernity, conceived of as a version of modernity, is precisely the time in which the consciousness that we will inevitably relive our past is particularly pronounced, as witnessed on the social, cultural, even ecological level.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Philosophical Studies
ISSN
0967-2559
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
28
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
452-469
UT code for WoS article
000540129200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086020594