Introductions to Nietzsche.

Cover; INTRODUCTIONS TO NIETZSCHE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note to the reader; Chronology of Nietzsche's life and works; Introduction; I. THE NIETZSCHE PHENOMENON; II. THE NIETZSCHE PROBLEM; III. NIETZSCHE'S IDEAL: "AMOR FATI"; CHAPTER 1: Nietzsche: Writings from the early notebooks; I. READING STRATEGIES; II. INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND; I Schopenhauer; II Richard Wagner; III The Greeks; III. THE NOTES; I 1867-1872; II 1872-1876; III 1876-1879; CHAPTER 2: Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy; CHAPTER 3: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations; CHAPTER 4: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human.

CHAPTER 5: Nietzsche: DaybreakTHE PLACE OF DAYBREAK IN THE NIETZSCHEAN CORPUS; NIETZSCHE AND NIETZSCHE'S GERMANY; THE CRITIQUE OF MORALITY; KANT AND SCHOPENHAUER ON MORALITY; FROM HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN TO DAYBREAK; MORALITY'S FALSE PRESUPPOSITIONS I; A false picture of agency; MORALITY'S FALSE PRESUPPOSITIONS II; The morality of custom; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6: Nietzsche: The Gay Science; CHAPTER 7: Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; THE TEXT; THE INTERPRETIVE PROBLEM; THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA AS A WORK OF LITERATURE?; TRUTH, APPEARANCE, AND THE FAILURE OF DESIRE.

THE DRAMATIC ACTION (PROLOGUE AND PART I)THE WANDERING ZARATHUSTRA (PART II); THE PROBLEM OF SELF-OVERCOMING; ILLNESS AND CONVALESCENCE (PART III); ZARATHUSTRA'S TRAGIC END? PARABLES AND PARODY (PART IV); CHAPTER 8: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil; I; II; III; IV; V; CHAPTER 9: Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality; INTRODUCTION TO NIETZSCHE'S TEXT; READING NIETZSCHE; GENEALOGY AND MORALITY; 'GOOD, BAD AND EVIL'; THE FATE OF BAD CONSCIENCE; SIN AND THE ASCETIC IDEAL; NIETZSCHE AND POLITICAL THOUGHT; CHAPTER 10: Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols; NIETZSCHE'S SANITY.

BECOMING WHO YOU ARENIETZSCHE ON NIETZSCHE; NIETZSCHE'S INTEGRITY; NIETZSCHE ON CHRISTIANITY; NIETZSCHE ON DECADENCE; NIETZSCHE ON WAGNER; CHAPTER 11: Nietzsche: Writings from the late notebooks; THE TEXTS; THE TASK; WILL TO POWER; COMING TO KNOW; LIVING WELL; Select bibliography; WORKS BY NIETZSCHE FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS; BROAD TREATMENTS OF NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY; TREATMENTS OF SPECIFIC WRITINGS; BIRTH OF TRAGEDY AND OTHER EARLY WRITINGS; NIETZSCHE'S "MIDDLE PERIOD": UNTIMELY MEDITATIONS, HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN, DAYBREAK, AND THE GAY SCIENCE; THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA.

Beyond good and evilon the genealogy of morality; late writings: twilight of the idols, antichrist, case of wagner, ecce homo, nietzsche contra wagner; nietzsche's poetry; major themes in nietzsche scholarship; art, music, and aesthetics; biographical studies; classics and philology; epistemology, language, and truth; eternal recurrence, time, and history; freedom and free will; influences and precursors; jews, anti-semitism, and the nazi misappropriation; legacy and reception; metaphysics; modern culture, modernity, and postmodernity; morals, ethics, values; philosophy and philosophers.

Politics and democracy.

A comprehensive and unusual introduction to Nietzsche, providing a separate introductory essay for each of his major works.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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