Stefan Bolea

Karl Löwith’s exceptional work Nietzsches Philosophie der ewigen Wiederkunft des Gleichen (1935) aptly combines the hermeneutics of nihilism with existential phenomenology/ontology. To properly translate it, one must be familiar with the jargon used by both Nietzsche and Heidegger, philosophers into whose work Stefan Bolea has carried out extensive research, publishing two books on the subject (Introducere în nihilism, 2012, 2014; Existențialismul astăzi, 2012, 2019). Löwith’s book is one of the most significant interpretations of Nietzsche’s philosophy as the eternal return of identical things. According to him, Nietzsche should be studied not merely as a philosopher of nihilism, but as an advocate of the philosophy of being (meontology, the concept of non-being, is seen as a prerequisite to fundamental ontology). Nietzsche’s conversion from the “No” of the death of God and (self) destruction to the “Yes” of the ecstatic “eternal return” can be seen as the passage from nihilism to existentialism. Bolea intends to upgrade his translation with a complete revision of Löwith’s references and a new introductory study explaining the originality of the text to Romanian readers.