Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Nietzsche’s Deepest Thought 3
6. Slouching toward Bethlehem to Be Born: On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche’s Übermensch 41
7. nietzsche as teacher of the eternal recurrence 61
8. What Was I Thinking? Nietzsche’s New Prefaces of 1886 63
9. Nietzsche’s Musical Politics 87
10. Life as Music: Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo 121
11. Nietzsche’s final teaching in context 141
12. Nietzsche and Dostoevsky on Nihilism and the Superhuman 143
13. Nietzsche and Plato on the Formation of a Warrior Aristocracy 161
14. Conclusion 179
15. What Remains 181
16. Abbreviations 201
17. Notes 203
18. Index 235