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“Carlos Segovia pleads his case for a reappraisal of Apollo in the corpus of Nietzsche, but he also leverages his case for an intriguing fresh look at the importance of Nietzsche’s thought for contemporary strategies of earth affirmation and reclamation. This study is well-documented, well-reasoned and reliable in its close readings of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and the host of sources both ancient and modern that contributed to The Birth of Tragedy and Nietzsche’s Dionysus-related writing. Segovia covers surprisingly vast ground in this small treatise—readers from numerous traditions will be pleased!” – Adrian Del Caro, Professor of German Studies, University of Tennessee, USA; General Editor, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanford University Press

“This volume makes Guattari’s weird and wonderful dramatic fragment Parmenides available to a global audience. The editorial materials and commentaries helpfully situate it in relation to the reception of ancient Greek philosophy in 20th-century continental thought and also bring the relationship between theory and drama to centre stage.” — Michael James Bennett, University of King’s College, Canada

”Guattari Beyond Deleuze decisively and meticulously constructs a non-Deleuzian portrait of Guattari as a philosopher of being and its modal variations. The influence on Guattari of Leibniz’s monadism, Heidegger’s diagram of the fourfold, and the ancient Greeks are vividly detailed for the first time. Through an effective periodization of Guattari’s thought, a fulsome figure emerges of the later period Guattari’s conceptualization of chaosmosis that constitutes an original constructivist philosophy. By boldly recuperating articulations of structure and machine in an alter-structuralism, Segovia can explain just how far Guattari advanced beyond both Deleuze and Lacan. After reading this book one will never refer to ‘Deleuze and Guattari’ in the same way again.” – Gary Genosko, Ontario Tech University, Canada

“Guattari Beyond Deleuze gets straight to the task of reading the œuvre of Félix Guattari on its own philosophical terms, rather than as a footnote to that of Gilles Deleuze. Building on astoundingly meticulous archival research, Segovia resituates Guattari in relation to his own major theoretical influences – phenomenology, psychoanalysis and structuralism – and draws out the implications of his thinking for contemporary movements including speculative realism and accelerationism, new materialism and animism. This book will constitute a major event for anyone interested in reinterrogating questions of ontology, subjectivity, politics and ecology transversally. Those taking up this task, of the utmost importance for thinking and philosophizing today, will find themselves rewarded with the new Guattari that Segovia has unearthed for us.” – Philippe Lynes, Durham University, UK

“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 the one of instability, crisis, war, and – to use another important concept of this book – nihilism. Even chaos needs a form of meta-stability to display its beauty.” – Frédéric Neyrat, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

“Dionysus & 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, USA