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).

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