NIETZSCHE, THE AWAKENING
Yannis Constantinides and Damien MacDonald

Translation Pablo Ires

Contrary to the image that we usually make of Nietzsche, that of that raptured and furious thinker, hammering here, blaspheming beyond, throwing puffs of fire in his wake, this book aims to add to that image (indelible) another image, that of the "Awake", borrowed from the Buddhist imagery, but present in many sections of his work.
The awake, the Awakening, are rather calm, even idyllic figures. No fighting feature, no longing on the horizon; meditative, contemplative, ironic search for itself, humorous, also in a physiological sense, eminently corporal, but where the body is not flesh but spirit, and the spirit is not a ghost but a body. Monista in the deep. Or rather there where monism and pluralism are the same thing, in struggle against that deep enemy that is dualism.
The fight against dualism unites Nietzsche with Buddhism, but not with that of Buddha but even more, with Eihei Dōgen, Zen Buddhist teacher brought to us since the thirteenth century. That is the bold proposal that illustrates this book.
The game of elective affinities between the two, Nietzsche and Dogen, will begin with the same vindication of the impermanence of all things in the future, will extend in the absence of fear, and even in the celebration before chaos, and will pass through destruction of the Self in favor of the Self. Finally, where the parallelism between the two paths, the Awakening, is best expressed. Against every ideal of "another world" or "another life", Awakening expressed in two times, in two languages, east or west but as part of the same thinking in transit: transcendence in the bosom of immanence, nirvana in the Samsara's bosom.
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