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Abstract: In recent times some of modernity’s founding principles, deriving in their origins from the Mediterranean and the philosophical thought that is commonly associated with Socrates and Plato, have come under heavy critique. Amongst others, concepts like truth, the autonomous and self grounded subject, morals or solvability of conflicts have become sites of contestation and debate. However, it is also becoming increasingly obvious that what has started with Nietzsche’s scathing analyses so far has remained largely a critique that, contesting rationality and pointing out its limits and lacunaes, itself still advanced by rational means. This dissertation ventures to re-think some of those categories being debated in (post)modernity. Under the conditions of a Verwindung of metaphysics it inquires how an active, experiential practice of self-transformation could concretely be lived. It sketches the outlines for a possible art of living for a subjectivity that is perceived as constantly emergent and in transformation, a subjectivity that dares to embrace conflict as part of its perpetual trans-personal relational becoming and that emerges beyond the hegemony of the categories of the truth and morals through a transformation of the self understood as an aesthetic (Apollonian) and energetic (Dionysian) practice.
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