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PESSIS-GARCIA, Begoña. Purposiveness and Self-Overcoming in Nietzsche’s Will to Power: The Eternal Return as a Challenge. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2025, n.72, pp.121-164.  Epub 11-Ago-2025. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v720.2964.

This paper discusses the tense interplay between the will to power, in its possibility of self-overcoming, and the eternal return, one of its most challenging internal counterpoints. How does this active drive for continuous and indefinite self-overcoming, the constructive and positive dimension of Nietzsche’s philosophy, interact with the eternal return, an oppressive, piercing thought? To address this question, I first refer briefly to “ateleological finality” as a concept that allows us to think of self-improvement, affirmation and even the possibility of progress or creative expansion within the will to power. Second, I lay out the problem posed by the thought of eternal return in a model open to history and evolution. Third, and finally, I present amor fati as a possible way to face, without dissolving, the challenges of the eternal return.

Palabras llave : Nietzsche; eternal return; self-overcoming; atelelogical finality; amor fati.

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