Attimo immenso e chiliasmo. I tempi dell'eccezione in Nietzsche e Ernst Bloch

The Immense Moment and Chiliasm: The Times of Exception in Nietzsche and Ernst Bloch The essay aims to analyze, in its first part, the complex issue of temporality as conceived within Nietzsche’s writings. I have sought to highlight, from this perspective, the theoretical distinction between the notion of the “instant” and that of the “moment”, considering some decisive passages from The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. What emerges is an enigmatic and significant intertwining between “eternal recurrence” and the “immense moment”. I have also sought to bring to light, within the context of Nietzsche’s thought, the alternation of “intensive” and “intuitive” temporal ecstasies linked to kairos, as well as “mystical” experiences of time related to the notion of the “Great Noon”. In the second part of the essay, I analyzed the issue of temporality in relation to the themes of messianism, revolution, and utopia within the work of Ernst Bloch, with particular reference to his work Thomas Müntzer, Theologian of Revolution. Instant, Moment, Augenblick, Eternal Recurrence, Kairos.