Starting with Nietzsche

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
i. O Man! Attend!......Page 13
ii. What does deep midnight’s voice contend?......Page 17
iii. I slept my sleep, And now awake at dreaming’s end......Page 18
iv. The world is deep, Deeper than day can comprehend......Page 19
v. Deep is its woe......Page 24
vi. Joy – deeper than heart’s agony; Woe says: Fade! Go!......Page 25
vii. But all joy wants eternity, Wants deep, deep, deep eternity......Page 27
CHAPTER 1: PHILOSOPHY AS LOVE OF FATE......Page 28
i. What is the Task of Philosophy?......Page 32
ii. The Philosopher as Philologist and Physician......Page 38
iii. The Philosopher as Legislator......Page 40
iv. Freedom and Fatum: Nietzsche’s Body......Page 45
CHAPTER 2: HISTORY AS SELF-CREATION......Page 66
i. The Way to Wisdom: Camel, Lion, Child......Page 67
ii. The Discovery of History in Hegel......Page 82
iii. Nietzsche versus Hegel......Page 92
iv. Of the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life......Page 95
v. Finding a Style to Philosophize......Page 100
CHAPTER 3: OF SCIENCE AND NIHILISM......Page 106
i. Nihilism: God is Dead......Page 107
ii. From the Birth of Tragedy to the Question of Science......Page 114
iii. The Birth of Physics......Page 118
iv. The Meaning of ‘The Critical Phase’......Page 126
v. Good and Bad Science: the Art of Genealogy......Page 131
CHAPTER 4: THE ETERNAL RETURN OF THE SAME......Page 135
i. The Ontological Face of the Eternal Return of the Same......Page 140
ii. The Ethical Face of the Eternal Return of the Same......Page 149
iii. The Experience of the Eternal Return of the Same......Page 155
iv. Last Human, Higher Human and Overhuman......Page 164
v. The Eternal Return of the Same as Religion......Page 170
CONCLUSION: THE WILL TO POWER......Page 176
Further Reading......Page 182
C......Page 185
H......Page 186
O......Page 187
T......Page 188
Z......Page 189