Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Paper

We have seen the importance of repetition in history for Hegel, in the sense that earlier stages and carried over into later stages, though in a sublimated form. What is the connection between repetition and history in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche? Compare and contrast Kierkegaard’s comments in “The Rotation Method,” and Nietzsche’s in The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life, The Genealogy of Morality, and the passages we read on the eternal return. (Don’t try to summarize the entirety of any of these works; rather, focus on the comments relevant to this theme.) You may want to consider such issues as the manner that history serves life and the necessity of both forgetting and remembering, the tension between chance and purposiveness, and their affinity to the romantics; and you may want to briefly contrast Nietzsche and Kierkegaard’s conceptions of history with the general conception found in Kant, German Idealism, and Marx.

Sources and Citations – Cite at least two passages each from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Provide full citations for any quotations or paraphrases (not including class lectures), using any standard method that provides all of the relevant information (including exact page numbers or a URL with an exact date). Keep in mind that many internet sources are unreliable.

Sample: Augustine, “On the Free Choice of the Will,” in Medieval Philosophy, 4^th edition, ed. Forrest E. Baird and Walter Kaufmann (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003), p. 81.

Place full citations in endnotes or a bibliography placed at the very end of the paper. Citations in the text or in footnotes should include only the author’s last name and the page numbers.

Length – Minimum 4 full pages, maximum 7 pages. If you use formatting or stylistic devices which artificially inflate the length of your writing – such as titles or headers, footnotes or citations within the text, or extra spaces between paragraphs – you will need to expand the length of your essay to make up the difference.

Grammar, Spelling, Style, Organization – Remember to edit and revise your papers before turning them in. If there is more than one error, on average, per page, you will need to rewrite your paper. Students with serious writing issues will be required to take drafts of each of their papers to the Campus Writing Center in EN A012 for assistance.

Formatting – Number pages and staple; 12 point type; Double-spaced; 1-1.5 inch margins