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After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstacy
by Jill Marsden
Read Nickolas Pappas’ memorial essay on the classical scholar Jean-Pierre Vernant, 1914 - 2007.
To create an intellectual and artistic community whereby individuals of similar spirit and vision may come together and explore Nietzsche’s philosophy, developing ways in which it can explode like a dancing star and be transfigured.
It is our purpose to invoke and embrace the notion of gaya scienza, carrying the Dionysian spirit into contemporary society to enact necessary transformations, and, in whatever manner possible, transform culture.
Chapter Two:
After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy
by Jill Marsden
"Oh, sea! Oh, evening! You are wicked mentors! You instruct human beings to cease being human!"
(Daybreak 423)
There are certain philosophical ideas that can be accessed only through self-abandon. For Nietzsche, the insight of Heraclitus into the ‘eternal wavebeat and rhythm of things’ is the product of a raw and restive meditation that has come to ebb and flow with this dark, inhuman pulse (PTAG 5). It is one thing to declare: ‘it is the fault of your myopia, not of the nature of things, if you believe you see firm land somewhere in the ocean of becoming and passing away’: quite another, as Heraclitus attests, to actually ‘see nothing other than becoming’ (PTAG 5) [continue reading]
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