It is well known that one of Nietzsche’s most important teachings, indeed what Michael Allen Gillespie has called his final teaching, was the “eternal recurrence of the same” (“ewige Wiederkunft des Gleichen”), also know more simply as the eternal return.68 The teaching was about the circularity of time and how everything and each of us will be repeated, in our tiniest details, over and over again, not in some serial fashion but in a circular one.
