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作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
a rather interesting writing from Right Reason - the weblog for conservative philosophers.
http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/2007/06/nietzsche_and_t_1.html
René Girard's take on Nietzsche's eternal return isn't quite so blithe. In his choosing Dionysus over Christ, Nietzsche was rightly seeing the only alternatives, but choosing the way of what Girard coined the "primitive sacred."
The eternal return is the way that violence "makes gods" and establishes (at least) three elements necessary for culture formation: myth, ritual, and prohibition. After the founding violence during which a victim is arbitrarily chosen and cast out or murdered, myth develops, making the now unified people feel good about their actions of violence. Ritual too accrues vital importance, re-enacting the founding violence so as to "bind back" (religare) the people to what made them unified. This accounts for the universal presence of a sacrificial altar at the heart of every culture. And, finally, prohibitions keep people from falling into behaviors that threaten to destroy culture (murder, adultery, incest, etc.) before ressentiment can be siphoned off in the sanctioned, ritualized, cathartic events of sacrifice.
The "eternal return" takes place in Girard's understanding when the ritual no longer carries sufficient cathartic effect to cohere the culture. It spirals into a sacrificial event (the prologue called "sacrificial preparation") during which prohibitions, distinctions, and taboos are erased, and cultural "meltdown", as it were, occurs.
Many see western civilization in just such a stage of the eternal return.
How are we going to mark the cultural 'meltdown' or 'great leaps' for the Chinese?
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Nietzsche and The Eternal Return
