on eternal recurrence as a veneration of the body

is it possibly true that, like Nietzsche suggests, all philosophy has been hiterto nothing more than an interpreting of the body and a misunderstanding of the body [eine Auslegung des Leibes und ein Missverständniss des Leibes]? is philosophy’s judgment on the body — whether seen as a site of salvation or one of damnation — symptomatical of a certain sickness of the philosopher themself? Nietzsche thinks so, and is precisely interested in this; the physiological: for there is no truth we can gain out of experience, outside of the bare one that the body suffers — doesn’t matter how much philosophy or religion try and make up for it. and while suffering itself cannot and ultimately will not save us, it can strengthen [vertieft] us. and it is in light of this that one can, perhaps, better understand Nietzsche’s notion of ‘eternal recurrence’ as an attempt at making the body, and its inherent suffering, a site of veneration. — beyond all hope, and beyond deliverance. as Dante saw hell, modernity sees life itself.