Richard Seaford – British Classicist

“Lucas Murrey shares with his subject, Hölderlin, a vision of the Greeks as bringing something vitally important into our poor world, a vision of which few classical scholars are now capable.”

“Lucas Murrey has produced a visionary adaptation of the Nietzschean Dionysiac to illuminate the dysfunctionality of twenty-first century capitalism.”

Author of Money and the Early Greek Mind & Dionysus

Anton Bierl – German Classicist, Professor of Greek Philology, University of Basel

“Lucas Murrey takes the god of tragedy, Dionysus, finally serious as a manifestation of the ecstatic scream of liberation and visual strategies of dissolution: he pleasantly portrays Hölderlin’s idiosyncratic poetic sympathy.”

“A congenial and rigorous new landmark study regarding Nietzsche’s understanding of Dionysus in Greek tragedy during his Basel year. Well versed in classical scholarship and challenging in its original insights into ancient and modern visual culture.”

Cited in Bierl’s “The Bacchic-Chor(a)ic Chronotope: Dionysus, Chora and Chorality in the Fifth Stasimon of Sophocles’ Antigone” from Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, edited by A. Bierl, M. Christopoulos and A. Papachrysostomou; MythosEikonPoiesis 10 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017)

Author of Der Chor in den Alten Komödie: Ritual und Performativität

David Hernández de la Fuente – Spanish Classical Philologist, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

“El dios del despertar y de la reconciliación de la luz y la oscuridad es la pura afirmación de la vida cíclica, como se ve en el culminar del poema que inspiraría más adelante a Nietzsche. Y es el dios que permite la asimilación a lo divino, la pervivencia última y cíclica del alma en el atardecer, entre vegetación exuberante y siempre viva y con la presencia inefable de la vid. Como epígono de la tradición pagana y continuador natural aparece Cristo, señor del pan y el vino, heredero de Deméter y Dioniso en los versos de Hölderlin[3] que, a su vez, heredan la antigua comparación entre los misterios de la liturgia cristiana y los misterios griegos que ya vio la Antigüedad tardía. Dioniso y Cristo como dos caras del mismo medallón deben ser estudiados a la par a propósito de la evolución del dios griego del éxtasis como dios salvífico del último paganismo, sobre todo durante los siglos IV y V, en la coexistencia y progresiva confrontación con el cristianismo.”

[3]. Lo dionisíaco en Hölderlin es estudiado en L. Murrey 2015. Para la interpretación filosófica de este poema en clave de comparación dionisíaco-cristiana sobre el dios que viene (der kommende Gott), véase el imprescindible Manfred 1994.

Cited in de la Fuente’s El despertar del alma: Dioniso y Ariadna; mito y misterio (Barcelona: Ariel, 2017), Chapter “Cuarto despertar: resurrección”

Vassilios P. Vertoudakis – Greek Classical Philologist

Cited in Vertoudakis’ Hiperión en las ruinas de Atenas (Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024), “Epílogo”

Matías S. Fernandez Robbio – Argentine Classicist

Cited as authority for reading Hölderlin’s poetry through the Dionysian in Robbio’s “La recepción de las categorías nietzscheanas de lo apolíneo y lo dionisíaco en el discurso antropológico de Ruth Benedict”, from Qué dicen el arte y la literatura a las ciencias sociales, ed. Marcelo Casarin and Baal Delupi, 71–84; Colección Posdoc. (Córdoba: Editorial del Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2024), pp. 71 and 83

Ulrich Duchrow – German Theologian, University of Heidelberg

“Religion kommt bei Nietzsche und in diesem ganzen Zusammenhang nur in ihrer an die Geldzivilisation angepassten Form in den Blick. Hier wäre es interessant, die kritische Perspektive der hebräischen Bibel und vor allem des Paulus ins Gespräch zu bringen. Dann würde deutlich, dass es nicht nur die Tragödien sind, die gegen die entstehende Geldzivilisation aufstehen, sondern vielmehr auch alle Religionen und Philosophien der Achsenzeit – von Amos über Buddha, Zoroaster, Laotse, Konfuzius und Jesus bis hin zu Muhammad. Das wiederum würde zeigen, dass im kulturellen Erbe von Jahrtausenden Ressourcen schlummern, die wir dringend brauchen, um langfristig eine neue Kultur des Lebens zu entwickeln. Denn das ist dringend nötig, da die herrschende westliche Geldzivilisation, unterstützt von den Medien, die das Sehen der Wirklichkeit zerstören, Erde und Menschheit in den Tod führen. Darauf weist Murrey in seinen Schlussbemerkungen hin. Ihm kommt das Verdienst zu, Hölderlin und – teilweise – Nietzsche als Bundesgenossen für die neue Kultur entdeckt zu haben.”

From “Wider das Geld im Denken und Fühlen – Hölderlin und Nietzsche als Kapitalismuskritiker”

Author of Gieriges Geld

Bernhard Böschenstein – Swiss Literary Scholar and Hölderlin specialist

“Here triumphs a temperament guided by ancient religion and that excavates, in Hölderlin’s translations, the central god Dionysus of Greek tragedy.”

“As a new contemporary interpreter of Nietzsche, Lucas Murrey offers a critical analysis of the catastrophes that this German philosopher prophesised. In particular, Murrey’s historical placement of Nietzsche that, on the one hand, looks explicitly backward to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin and, on the other hand, implicitly forward to the poetry of Stefan George, opens new doors of thought.”

Author of “Frucht des Gewitters”: Zu Hölderlins Dionysos als Gott der Revolution and Von Morgen nach Abend: Filiationen der Dichtung von Hölderlin zu Celan

Jean-François Kervégan – French Philosopher, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

“Hölderlin most surely deserved such a book.”

Author of Que faire de Carl Schmitt?

Babette Babich – American Philosopher, Fordham University

Cited in Babich’s “Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass and Its Wirkungsgeschichte”, from Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931–1941, ed. by Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016)

Manuel Knoll – German Philosopher and Political Theorist

Cited in Knoll’s “Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem and Great Politics: The Continued Research Interest in His Political Thought” from Nietzsche-Studien 47, no. 1 (2018): 479 n. 37

Joshua M. Hall – American Philosopher

Cited in Hall’s “Dionysus Lyseus Reborn: The Revolutionary Philosophy Chorus” from Philosophy Today 66, no. 1 (2022): 57–74

Víctor Ibarra Becerra – Chilean Philosopher

Cited in Ibarra B’s Hegel on Sacred Poetry: Love, Freedom, and the Practical Roots of the Sublime. Literality and Liminality. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024

Jan Clefferson Costa de Freitas – Brazilian Philosopher, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Cited with Walter Kaufmann as one of two authorities for the article’s Nietzsche argument; Murrey’s reading of the last human is paraphrased and quoted directly (p. 45 of Nietzsche: The Meaning of Earth) in Freitas’s “Ser-para-a-Terra: Lugares da Ecologia na Filosofia de Nietzsche e Heidegger”. PRISMA: Revista de Filosofia 6, no. 1 (2024): 216–232. Cited at pp. 219, 220, 221–222 and n. 6, 229, 231

Noam Chomsky – American Linguist & Social-Political Theorist and Activist

“…fascinating material…”

“Once again, fascinating material. It is exciting to see the meaning of Orwell’s unpublished preface ‘The Freedom of the Press’ enter into the orbit of German philosophy.”

Author, with Ilan Pappé, of Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against Palestinians

Dennis Ioffe – Slavist, Université libre de Bruxelles; co-editor, Russian Literature

Cited in Ioffe’s “Bezumie kak istok: Gël’derlin i psikhicheskie anomalii v russkoi kul’ture XIX veka” [Madness as source: Hölderlin and psychic anomalies in nineteenth-century Russian culture]; New Zealand Slavonic Journal 47–48 (2013–2014 [pub. 2016]): 77–101, at pp. 89 and 101

Vanessa Gubbins – Latin American Studies

Cited in Gubbins’ “Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Foundations: Translation and the Communal Politics of (Un)natural Mothers”. MLN 136, no. 5 (2021): 1154–87

Simon Susen – Professor of Sociology, City St George’s, University of London; co-editor, Journal of Classical Sociology

Cited in Susen’s The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and in Susen’s Sociology in the Twenty-First Century: Key Trends, Debates, and Challenges (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)