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This paper aims to explore the correspondences between the dialectical analysis (the unique way of logical argumentation) of Nietzsche’s will and that of Deleuze’s desire—the discursive axis of two influential thinkers whose critiques of representation dominate the formation of postmodern theory and beyond. In addition, I make a comparative study of their dialectics and that of Nāgārjuna. The major Nietzschean/Deleuzean texts explored in this paper are some of those which foreground the everlasting deterritorialized movement of will (and its related themes—Overman and Eternal Recurrence) and desire: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Will to Power; and Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. As for Nāgārjuna’s work, I choose to focus on his masterpiece and mostly valued one—Mūlamadhyamakakārikās (中論).The focus of this study is to attempt a mapping (characteristic of rhizomatics) of how their special dialectics of will/desire (Nihilism), without ever attempting to create another Absolute Truth, sets forth the non-totalizable multiplicities that characterizes the world of becomin

Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Nāgārjuna: Mapping the Dialectics of Will/Desire