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Nietzsche and Levinas require that we work for a future beyond our own lives, exploring our unique sense of a pre-philosophical ethos and justice in thinking through the other. This book invites us to move through and beyond the affirmative ethics of both thinkers to become advocates for the highest evaluation of ethical sensibility that returns us to a pre-philosophical wisdom which punctuates each moment and questions the justice of all thin...

Nietzsche and the Dionysian argues that the Dionysian affect in Nietzsche's early work can be linked to an originary interruption of self-consciousness articulated by the philosophical companion, who compels us to respond to the plurality of life they express by being 'true to the earth' and 'becoming who we are'. Such an ethics, compelled by the Dionysian affect, grounds any future for humanity in the affirmation of the earth and life.

This book argues that Nietzsche bases his affirmative morality on the model of individual responsiveness to otherness which he takes from the mythology of Dionysus. The subject is not free to choose to avoid such responding to the demands of the other. Nietzsche finds that the basic mode of responding is pleasure. This feeling, as a basis for morality, underlies the morality which is true to the earth and the major concepts of "will to power",...