Reinterpreting Modern Culture: An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy

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CONTENTS I ix PREFACE xi NOTE ON REFERENCES, EDITIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS xiii ABBREVIATIONS 1 CHAPTER ONE Presenting the Philosopher 1 Physician and Sculptor 2 The Philosopher as a Physician of Culture 13 Philosophizing with a Hammer 19 Nietzsche's Life and Works 19 Ancestry and Childhood 21 . Student 24 From Leipzig to Basel 27 From The Birth of Tragedy to Unfashionable Observations 31 A New Start: From Human, All Too Human to The Gay Science 38 From Thus Spoke Zarathustra to the Last Writings 43 The End 45 The Posthumous Vicissitudes of Nietzsche's Writings 51 CHAPTER TWO Nietzsche's Writing and How to Read Nietzsche 52 Texts 52 Five Prefaces to Five Unwritten Books, 2 53 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, "On Reading and Writing" 54 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VIII, 246 and 247 58 Daybreak, Preface 5 59 On the Genealogy ofMorals, Preface 8 60 Ecce Homo, "Why I Write Such Good Books," 4 62 A Typology of Nietzsche's Writings 64 Nietzsche's Aphoristic Writings: A First Presentation 66 Explaining the Aphoristic Style Biographically 68 Nietzsche's Intention to Write Aphorisms 70 Writing and Reading: Language, Thought, and Life 71 The Distorting Effects of Language 72 Style as Weapon 74 Nietzsche's Styles ~4 Nietzsche's Modes of Presentation and His Art of Concealment vi I CONTENTS 79 Rhetorical Figures and Procedures 90 Hints for the Reader 95 How to Read Nietzsche's Writings 96 Read Slowly 98 Read Ruminatively 100 Conclusion 104 CHAPTER THREE ''Epistemology'' and ''Metaphysics'' in Quotation Marks 104 Texts 105 Beyond Good and Evil, Preface 108 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter I, 1,23 111 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 11,24,34,36 117 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VI, 210 119 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 231 120 A Paradoxical First Evidence and Its Ancestry 120 A Paradoxical Parody 122 Ancestry 127 Nietzsche Beyond Kant and Schopenhauer 130 The Prejudices of Philosophers and Scientists 130 "Supposing Truth Is a Woman" 133 The Dogmatic Philosophers 136 Knowledge, Language, and Life 141 Perspectivism and Genealogy 143 Irony 145 From Critique to Self-Criticism 148 Nietzsche's Skeptical Critique of Skepticism 149 Critique of Skepticism 152 Another Skepticism 154 The "Ontology" and "Epistemology" of the Will to Power 154 Introduction 156 The Will to Power 163 Knowledge and Reality 165 Quotation Marks: Knowledge as Creation and Command 174 CHAPTER FOUR "A Morality for Moralists" 176 Texts 176 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter V, 186 179 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter V, 188 182 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter v: 200 184 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 214 185 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 227 187 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter IX, 260 vii I CONTENTS 193 Nietzsche's Critique of Morality 193 Genealogy and Typology 197 Morality and Nature 202 Morality and Politics 205 Scope and Object of Nietzsche's Critique 214 The Morality of the Critique 215 Our Virtues 220 Nietzsche's Stoicism 228 Nietzsche's Ideal of Nobility 235 The Dionysian Philosopher and the Overman 250 CHAPTER FIVE ''Dionysus Versus the Crucified" 251 Texts 251 Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 111,51-56 256 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Religion 257 Genealogy and Typology (BGE 45-50) 259 Religion and Culture (BGE 51-56) 262 Christianity (The Anti-Christ) 269 The Future of Religion (BGE 57-62) 274 Nietzsche's Presentation of the Message of the Death of God 274 Human, All Too Human, II, WS 84 ' 275 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue 2 278 The Gay Science, Chapter III, 125 280 The Message 285 The Meaning 289 The Religiosity of Nietzsche's Philosophy 289 Introduction 291 The Eternal Return of the Same 294 The Anti-Christian Character of the Eternal Return 296 Dionysian Religiosity? 305 BIBLIOGRAPHY 309 INDEX OF NAMES 312 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 319 INDEX OF TEXT CITATIONS ...