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After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstacy

By Jill Marsden

This book explores the imaginative possibilities for philosophy created by Nietzsche's sustained reflection on the phenomenon of ecstasy. From The Birth of Tragedy to his experimental 'physiology of art', Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic, and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal Return. Jill Marsden pursues the implications of this legacy for contemporary Continental thought via analyses of such voyages in ecstasy as those of Kant, Schopenhauer, Schreber and Bataille.

Jill Marsden is a free spirit in the world of Nietzsche-studies, paying obeisance to no-one but herself and her passion for Nietzsche and belief in the possibilities of philosophy. In my view she has written one of the most interesting and thought-provoking books on Nietzsche of recent times; a work of beauty and sublimity, delicate and intricate, it has many riches. It is very fitting that a chapter of the book will appear in the Nietzsche Circle's journal The Agonist since it merits a wide readership well beyond the confines and constraints of the academy. This book belongs to the future, to a greater amd nobler future than exists at present, and the Nietzsche Circle is delighted and honored to have the chance to publish an extract from it. ~ Keith Ansell-Pearson

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