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The Three-Dimensionality of Historical Time

by Guillaume Faye

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May 23, 2024
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Guillaume Faye examines the three-dimensional concept of time, highlighting its impact on human historical identity and its contrast with Christian progressivism.

This is the tenth part of Guillaume Faye’s essay ‘The New Ideological Challenges’, published in 1988. Also read parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.

What fundamentally characterises the superhumanist worldview, as formulated and brought to light by Wagner, Nietzsche, and Heidegger in its full historical potential, is the replacement of the Indo-Christian linear concept of time with a three-dimensional one, and the return of this three-dimensionality to humanity, which grounds its existence as such. This three-dimensional temporality enables humans to emerge as historical beings. How is this three-dimensional perspective of time and history to be defined, and how does it conflict with the progressive, Christian-derived view? In response, we would like to summarise Giorgio Locchi’s thesis.

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