ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the movements of concentric space are pivotal to eternal recurrence. This spatial structure emerges both at the levels of Nietzsche’s imagery and concepts regarding eternal recurrence. The question is examined as to how concentric spatial movements can be related to Nietzsche’s will to power as diametric spatial projections and to the Dionysian as exemplification of diametric spatial structural movements. A renewed focus is needed on each spatial structure as a directional projection. Projection is a dynamic return of the same. Both concentric and diametric spaces are entwined conceptually, where one is a modification of the other. Eternal recurrence offers a challenge to a flattened, homogenous time. This challenge commingles Nietzschean concerns with those of Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, while Taylor’s preoccupation with loss of carnival as draining Western society of a life principle, offers a further resonance with Nietzsche’s Dionysian thematic. Yet their common temporal concerns require reorientation in terms of questioning homogenous space to examine the vitality of Taylor’s search for mirror image reversal in carnival as a diametric spatial quest. Key words: eternal recurrence, will to power, Dionysian, homogenous time, carnival, reversal, play, graphology
