“Nietzsche becomes Western philosophy’s first avowed atheist of the far right. His aestheticism, together with his vision of the Dionysian creator, gives him a frame of reference outside positivism and outside all other forms of optimistic rationalism. This makes possible a thoroughgoing repudiation of the dominant social ideals of modernity.”

“Nietzsche becomes Western philosophy’s first avowed atheist of the far right. His aestheticism, together with his vision of the Dionysian creator, gives him a frame of reference outside positivism and outside all other forms of optimistic rationalism. This makes possible a thoroughgoing repudiation of the dominant social ideals of modernity.”

— Bruce Detwiler