Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence Literally

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Notes on Contributors XI
4. Abbreviations and Translations XIII
5. Nietzsche’s Critique of Staticism 1
6. Part I: Time, History, Method
7. Nietzsche’s Cultural Criticism and his Historical Methodology 23
8. Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams 35
9. The Late Nietzsche’s Fundamental Critique of Historical Scholarship 51
10. Part II: Genealogy, Time, Becoming
11. Nietzsche’s Timely Genealogy: An Exercise in Anti-Reductionist Naturalism 63
12. From Kantian Temporality to Nietzschean Naturalism 75
13. Nietzsche’s Problem of the Past 87
14. Towards Adualism: Becoming and Nihilism in Nietzsche’s Philosophy 113
15. Part III: Eternal Recurrence, Meaning, Agency
16. Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence Literally 149
17. Suicide, Meaning, and Redemption 163
18. Nietzsche and the Temporality of (Self-)Legislation 191
19. Part IV: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries
20. Geschichte or Historie? Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Philological Studies 213
21. ‘An Uncanny Re-Awakening’: Nietzsche’s Renascence of the Renaissance out of the Spirit of Jacob Burckhardt 231
22. Part V: Tragic and Musical Time
23. Metaphysical and Historical Claims in The Birth of Tragedy 275
24. Nietzsche’s Musical Conception of Time 291
25. Backmatter 309