Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism

Rethinking the Earth–World Divide

Carlos A. Segovia, Sofya Shaikut Segovia (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53858-0 (ISBN)

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This book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life’s dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal but differential affirmation of event and form, body and thought, dance and philosophy.

This book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life’s dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal affirmation of event and form, earth and world, dance and philosophy. It revisits Heidegger and Lévi-Strauss, and combines them with Roy Wagner, with the purpose of moving beyond Nietzsche’s manifold legacy, including post-structuralism, new materialism, and speculative realism. It asks whether merging philosophy and anthropology around issues of comparative ontologies may give us a chance to re-become earthbound dwellers on a re-worlded earth.

Carlos A. Segovia (Ph.D., Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, 2004) is lecturer of philosophy at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. He is the editor of Conceptual Personae in Ontology (2022) and the author of Nietzsche’s Pre-Dionysian Apollo and the Limits of Contemporary Thought (forthcoming). Sofya Shaikut Segovia is a performance artist and a philosopher. She teaches butō dance in Madrid while studying with Sayoko Onishi. She is also a co-editor of From Worlds of Possibles to Possible Worlds: On Post-Nihilism and Dwelling (2021).

List of Figures

1 Introduction

1 The Idea behind This Book

2 Mapping the Issues

3 Brief Outline of the Book’s Chapters and Their Sources

4 A Note on Style, Translations, and Conventions

2 Dionysus in Greece

1 Untamed Life

2 An Olympian God?

3 The Unity of the Living

4 An Integrative God

5 Dionysus and Ontology

3 The Greek Apollo

1 Apollo’s Gaze

2 Apollo’s Distance

3 Apollo’s Arrows

4 Apollo and the Birth of Philosophy

5 Apollo, Dionysus, and the Earth

4 The Modern Misadventures of Apollo and Dionysus

1 Achilles and Odysseus

2 Nietzsche’s Dionysian Philosophy

3 Dionysus’s Maelstrom

4 Winckelmann’s Apollo

5 A Queer Ideal?

6 Dionysus’s Bequest

5 Thinking with Apollo

1 Apollo’s Marble

2 Apollo’s Stereogram

3 Apollo’s Screen

4 Apollo’s Blackout

5 Apollo’s Silence

6 Wordling(s): the Earth’s Reflexivity

6 Dancing with Dionysus

1 Our Living Body

2 The Purpose of Dancing

3 Artaud and Hijikata

4 Butō: Animism redux

5 Intersections

6 A Twofold Legacy

7 Back to Structuralism?

1 Structuralism as a Philosophy of Difference

2 The Post-structuralist Waterline

3 Ontological Pluralism and the Neo-structuralist Worlding Star

8 Conclusion: Post-metaphysics and Its Doubles

1 On Post-nihilism and the Subject/Object Divide

2 Destiny and the Otherwise

3 Dionysus and Apollo, Twins

4 À rebours

Appendix 1: Development of the Ontological Pentagram

Appendix 2: Development of the Modal Pentagram

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Existentialism, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology ; 384
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-53858-5 / 9004538585
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53858-0 / 9789004538580
Zustand	Neuware