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Through close reading and interpretive reflections, Paul Miklowitz examines key dialectics in Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit in order to come to terms with the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality inaugurated by Nietzsche. In his interpretation of the Phenomenology, Miklowitz shows how Hegel skillfully manipulates narrative structures, even while disavowing them. Tracing the self-undermining implications latent in Hegels strategy of retrospective phenomenological reconstruction through to their coming to self-consciousness in Nietzsches central character of Zarathustra, Miklowitz argues that Hegel leaves a problematic legacy to philosophers, claiming to have achieved comprehensive wisdom in absolute knowing, and that Nietzsche responds by undermining the authority of the philosopher. Thus metaphysical questions are reformulated and resolved in narratives self-consciously mediated by irony: they become metafictions, philosophic imperatives that expressly acknowledge their own createdness and call into question their universality. In examining Nietzsches post-apocalyptic and anti-Hegelian perspectivism, Miklowitz focuses on Thus Spoke Zarathustra, offering a new interpretation of eternal return in light of the problematic character of repetition intrinsic to the narrative structure of metaphysical illumination: Nietzsches project, unlike Hegels metaphysics, proposes to serve philosophy not as a uniquely true source of doctrine, but rather as an exemplary experiment in metafiction. Finally, Miklowitz also briefly examines some of the postmodern effects of this intellectual history and its consequences for the theoretical discourse of philosophy-whose end (in the sense of a telos) was reached in Hegel, only to have its end (in the sense of death or destruction) proclaimed by Nietzsche.
