Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism

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).

"This book reappraises the quality of Apollo as a conceptual and political necessity for a world whose nightmarish master signifier, and rule in the end, is one of instability, crisis, war, and – to use another important concept in this book – nihilism. Even chaos needs a form of meta-stability to display its beauty."– Frédéric Neyrat, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism is an ambitious and timely intervention in the contemporary philosophical scene. Rich with insight and erudition, this book is a significant contribution to recasting critical diagnoses of the present and explorations 'otherwise' within the differential terrain of ontological pluralism."– Jarrad Reddekop, Camosun College

• List of Figures1 Introduction1 The Idea behind This Book2 Mapping the Issues3 Brief Outline of the Book’s Chapters and Their Sources4 A Note on Style, Translations, and Conventions2 Dionysus in Greece1 Untamed Life2 An Olympian God?3 The Unity of the Living4 An Integrative God5 Dionysus and Ontology3 The Greek Apollo1 Apollo’s Gaze2 Apollo’s Distance3 Apollo’s Arrows4 Apollo and the Birth of Philosophy5 Apollo, Dionysus, and the Earth4 The Modern Misadventures of Apollo and Dionysus1 Achilles and Odysseus2 Nietzsche’s Dionysian Philosophy3 Dionysus’s Maelstrom4 Winckelmann’s Apollo5 A Queer Ideal?6 Dionysus’s Bequest5 Thinking with Apollo1 Apollo’s Marble2 Apollo’s Stereogram3 Apollo’s Screen4 Apollo’s Blackout5 Apollo’s Silence6 Wordling(s): the Earth’s Reflexivity6 Dancing with Dionysus1 Our Living Body2 The Purpose of Dancing3 Artaud and Hijikata4 Butō: Animism redux5 Intersections6 A Twofold Legacy7 Back to Structuralism?1 Structuralism as a Philosophy of Difference2 The Post-structuralist Waterline3 Ontological Pluralism and the Neo-structuralist Worlding Star8 Conclusion: Post-metaphysics and Its Doubles1 On Post-nihilism and the Subject/Object Divide2 Destiny and the Otherwise3 Dionysus and Apollo, Twins4 À reboursAppendix 1: Development of the Ontological PentagramAppendix 2: Development of the Modal PentagramBibliographyIndex