This book investigates the relation between time and suffering. This research is based on Nietzsche's phenomenology of the "It was", developed by him in the chapter "On redemption" in "Thus spoke Zarathustra".
After the phenomenological reading of this chapter about time and suffering in Nietzsche's work, a second part will be dedicated to the reception, the continuation, the ways in and the ways out of this philosophical problem within the phenomenological philosophy and literature using the examples of Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Ricoeur and Kundera. The third and last part of this thesis will bring the ways in and ways out, which were won in the second part, together in a discussion.