Sentences with phrase «eternal return»

Polytheisms, essence religions and mystery cults, on the other hand, invoke unalterable forces and eternal returns; they attribute events to inevitability, inscrutability and whim.

2 Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return, New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1959.

The five books that now seem to me to have been most important in this way are Reinhold Niebuhr, The Self and the Dramas of History; Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return; Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness; Rudolf Bultmann, Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting; and Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History.

Until the advent of modernity, all pure thinking as such was closed to the possibility of the truly and the actually new, then the future could only finally be the realization of the past, for history itself is ultimately a movement of eternal return, and even revelation or a divine or ultimate order is a movement of eternal return.

Nothing so clearly unveils Hegel's system as an apocalyptic system as does this ending, but such an ultimate ending is unique to apocalypticism, for even if it parallels archaic visions of eternal return, it wholly differs from all primordial vision in knowing an absolute and final ending, an ending which is apocalypse itself.

On the motif of terror, see Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History, trans.

That was only an Eternal Return, which was created by Eliade, I put that in capital letters.

I'm for and with myself in my otherness, in the eternal return of earth's fairer children, the lily, the rose, the sun on dusk and brick, the loved, the lover, and their fear of life.

You needed to do that, or you would have been left only with the Eternal Return of the sacred bottom - touching.

There are echoes here of Mircea Eliade («the eternal return»), Albert Schweitzer (reverence for life), and Jean - Paul Sartre («for and with myself»), but perhaps most of all the kind of «Catholic mysticism» which Lowell admired in Gerard Manley Hopkins.

You experienced the Eternal Return in bottom - touchings!

For Nietzsche, too, time is at the heart of reality, but now as unending, the eternal return of the same.

This quantification of the span of human history would modify the Platonic conception in the Timaeus, making the history of the world a homogeneous and indefinite continuum, a simple reflection of the eternal return of the interlocking planetary cycles, with their conjunctions and oppositions.

The history of the idea of eternal return is discussed briefly in «The Tradition of Cycles».

Other titles new to Fandor this week: The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Elina Psikou, 2014) Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973) Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929) Sex and Broadcasting (Tim K. Smith, 2016) We Go Way Back (Lynn Shelton, 2006)

Eternal return: Britain's last line of defense saves the world but doesn't quite thrill — or surprise — on his latest mission

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas is the debut feature from Greek filmmaker Elina Psikou.

They may not have been aware this was her second film; her 2014 debut The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas also trenchantly focuses on males and is streaming on Amazon and Fandor.

The task at hand may be to run down Dr Eggman's latest henchman, Infinite, a preening, masked spectre who can mess with dimensions and resurrect old nemeses to fight you, but if you really want to stare into the abyss of time, to witness reality cracking and splintering under the eternal return of the same, look no further than the hyper - accessorised, player - crafted abomination at your side.

We have Microsoft's latest u-turn, as they pledge to bring self - publishing to the Xbox One; Shadow of the Eternals returns, with Solid Snake actor David Hayter in tow; we look at Microsoft's assertion that they'll challenge government spying; we chat about Bobby Kotick's Activision buyout; and a BioWare concept artist shows us what Tali's face might have looked like.

For a series that is predicated on the eternal return of evil as well as its defeat, whose plot is always a restoration project for the old order, this is saying something.

Arnold Mesches, «Eternal Return.»

At Meow Wolf's new exhibit, The House of Eternal Return, the concept of

Not without a certain irony, the artist demonstrates the tragedy of eternal return.

I imagine that when money goes away, so will this pious minutia of eternal return.

According to the artist, our present reaffirms the concept of an «eternal return,» the idea that our existence is cyclical in nature instead of linear.

Marina Adams produces almost equally large paintings that in their simple, bright hues and voluptuous shapes echo poster - like notions of the eternal return.

Another links boredom to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the eternal return.

Beginning with the Brushstroke Paintings of the 1970s — in which the ritualized gesture of paint application dramatizes the eternal return of the same — Reed bids farewell to the histrionic avowal of self - expression.

The interactive experience is known as House of Eternal Return and is the brainchild of the 150 - member artist collective known as Meow Wolf.

Gao Yuan's recent solo exhibition Gao Yuan: Eternal Return (2017) is presented at Capsule Shanghai.

A series of works examines time everlasting and the philosophical idea of «eternal return» through a bunch of carefully chosen historic elements in Chicago - based visual artist Claudia Hart's first solo exhibition with TRANSFER Gallery.

Capsule Shanghai is pleased to present «Eternal Return», emerging artist Gao Yuan's first solo exhibition in Shanghai.

Its body curls and tangles around itself to form a ring — a symbol of eternal return and the infinite life cycle.

Curves aside, the element's recyclable material is the first hint to the eternal return theme, which later takes the form of more or less literal references to the myth of Sisyphus (Marcell Jankovics, Koenraad Dedobbeleer) and the Uroboros (Pedro Barateiro), as well as more abstract sculptural allegories.

In The Future That Was, Dutch artist Gabriel Lester chose the latter, collecting a series of pieces more or less connected to the holistic concept of the eternal return, the incessant and cyclical transformation of things.

Golden Age features critical texts on abstract painting by Lane Relyea, David Geers, and Gregory Sholette in an attempt to summarize existing conversations about the eternal returns of abstract painting and how to further the impact, agency and relevance of contemporary art practices.

The eternal return of the same is not metaphysics; it's an aesthetic!

The lecture will pay particular attention to the significance of labor dynamics (and their socio - economical implications) and their relation to abstraction (and painting's) eternal returns.