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THIS IS THE BOOK THAT HAS THE SO-CALLED NIETZSCHEANS GNASHING THEIR TEETH
THIS IS THE BOOK THAT HAS THE SO-CALLED NIETZSCHEANS GNASHING THEIR TEETH
With this book, Dr. Frank Scalambrino showed that the blunt atheist interpretation of Nietzsche is wrong. Nietzsche absolutely believed in higher powers. Nietzsche considered these powers - first and foremost - ineffable, and used to names of the ancient Greek gods, at least in part, as a critique of Modern spirituality. It seems most readers of Nietzsche simply froth-at-the-mouth looking for another accomplice for their atheistic grumblings, but with much scholarship and a careful reading, Professor Scalambrino proves the atheist interpretation of Nietzsche is silly. For instance, consider the quotes listed under the book cover below:
“Isn’t the pagan cult a form of thanksgiving and affirmation of life? Mustn’t its highest representation be a justification and deification of life?
The well-constituted and overflowing type of spirit! The type of spirit that takes into itself and redeems the contradictions and questionable aspects of existence!
It is here that I locate the Dionysus of the Greeks: the religious affirmation of life, life as a whole, not denied or divided; (typical – that the sex-act awakens profundity, mystery, reverence).
Dionysus versus the ‘Crucified’:
there you have the antithesis.
It is not a difference with respect to martyrdom – the same thing has a different meaning.
[In the case of the Dionysian Worldview,] Life itself, its eternal fruitfulness and recurrence, creates torment, destruction, the will to annihilation. In the other case, suffering – the ‘Crucified [formulated] as the innocent one’ – counts as an objection to this life, as a formula for its condemnation.”
~Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §1052.
“In song and in dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community…
He is no longer an artist; he has become a work of art…
to the sound of the chisel strokes of the Dionysian world-artist rings out the cry of the Eleusinian mysteries …
‘Do you sense your Maker, world?’”
~Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §1.
“And do you know what ‘the world’ is to me?
Shall I show it to you…
This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end… enclosed by ‘nothingness’… a play of forces… eternally changing… blessing itself as that which must return eternally, as a becoming that knows no satiety, no disgust, no weariness: this, my Dionysian world of the eternally self-creating, the eternally self-destroying, this mystery world of the twofold ecstasy, my ‘beyond good and evil,’ … – do you want a name for this world? A solution for all its riddles? …
This world is the Wille zur Macht [Will-to-Power/Create/Actualize] – and nothing besides!” And you yourselves are also [an expression of] this Wille zur Macht – and nothing besides!”
~Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §1067.
“We are to recognize a Dionysiac phenomenon, one which reveals to us the playful construction and demolition of
the world of individuality
as an outpouring of primal ecstasy and delight,
a process quite similar to Heraclitus the Obscure’s comparison of the force that shapes the world to a playing child…”
~Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §3.
The Dionysian Worldview is the key to unlocking Nietzsche's writings. The Dionysian Worldview is a consistent theme that runs from Nietzsche's first writings to his last writings (including his "Madness Letters"). Full Throttle Heart may not be the easiest book to read (due to the heavy scholarship Dr. Scalambrino uses to thoroughly prove this point). However, for those who have the ears for it, this book will show you the way to unify Nietzsche's thoughts into a consistent and coherent philosophy.
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