Friedrich Nietzsche

1. Explain the typology of the “ascending” and “descending” modes of life that Nietzsche
laydown in Twilight of the idols. How do these modes of life inform a Nietzschean ethics
and ontology?
2. For Nietzsche, the will to power is the primitive form of affect that all other affects are
only development of it. “How did Deleuze interpret the will to power? How is the will to
power related to the typology of ascending and descending modes of life?”