From the death of God to the abysmal thought of the eternal recurrence

Abstract

Nietzsche exposes the proposal of the eternal recurrence as a demoniacal revelation of the heaviest weight, which refers to the unconditional and infinite repetition of all things, where the notion of the instant of linear time is liberated and where the affirmation of life in constant becoming is allowed, through play. The becoming makes of the eternal recurrence the abysmal thought and the abyss contains in itself another great revelation: the death of God. But what does this abysmal notion consist of? The abyss is the image that shows the loss of referents, what referents? What is the horizon that has been erased according to the revelation of the madman of The gay science? What does the sentence God has died tell us in the background?