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- PublicationOpen AccessPeriodicity and intimations of a Judaic universe in David Mamet’s Faustus(2018-07-04) Safaei, MohammadDavid Mamet’s Faustus presents a complex amalgam of various ideas, traditions and cultures. After a preliminary discussion in this essay on the adaptive status of Mamet’s Faustus and on the myth of Faustus throughout history, I approach the notion of periodicity and time in the play, in its religious and anthropological contexts. I further investigate the same theme in tandem with the Nietzschean doctrine of eternal recurrence and its intersection with Judaism and, in specific, with Jewish philosopher Soloveitchik’s conception of halakhic man and its antithetical selves, namely cognitive man and homo religiosus. Exploring the echoes of Jewish existentialism in the works of Soloveitchik, I argue that the play, which is categorized as a typical adaptation of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, posits serious questions as to human existence and the significance of intellectual negation and spiritual challenge within a Judaic universe. The essay, beyond the analysis of intertextuality in Mamet’s Faustus, tends to underscore the play’s distinguished contribution to the myth of Faustus from a Judaic perspective.
- PublicationOpen AccessSobre el supuesto carácter circular del tiempo en el eterno retorno de Nietzsche(Universidad de Murcia, 2012) Galparsoro, José IgnacioLa noción de infinito se presenta en Nietzsche en estrecha relación con la noción de tiempo y en el contexto del intento de construir una cosmología vinculada con su hipótesis del eterno retorno. En esta cosmología no encaja una concepción circular del tiempo. Para Nietzsche el tiempo es una serie infinita de cíclicos períodos idénticos. Por ello, y pese a una muy extendida interpretación, es preciso concluir que la hipótesis nietzscheana del eterno retorno es incompatible con una concepción circular del tiempo.