Nietzsche and Metaphysics

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Contents Translator's Acknowledgments Preface 1 The Subversion of Categories and Identities The Will to Power Nihilism Genealogy and the Former Codes The Overman and the Transmutation The Eternal Return 2 The Initial Rupture with Schopenhauer Increased Divergencies and Lasting Affinities The Metaphysical Overturning Prior to The Birth of Tragedy 3 The Overturning of Platonism and the New Meaning of Appearance 4 The Native Malady of Language Language as Symbol and Symptom The Herd Code: Logic, Grammar, and Metaphysics Writing and the Limits of Its Therapy 5 The Critique and Subversion of Subjectivity Shattering the Logical Identity of the Subject Rediscovering Intra-Subjective Plurality Developing the Cosmic Dimension of the Ego 6 Life and Natural Totality Life Is not the Totality, nor the Good, nor the EviL, but a Logic of the Impulses, which Is the Origin of every Conscious Logic As Soon As The Chaos of the Totality Is Affirmed Absolutely, It Becomes Divine Necessity. The Eternal Return May Be Viewed As A New Theodicy 7 Metamorphosis of the Divine The Death of God as the Self-Suppression of Bad Conscience The Refusal of a God Conceived as "Universal Consciousness of Becoming," or as "Total Sensorium," or as "Total Process" From the Revelation of the Divine to the Naming of a God 8 Tragic Joy Joy and Serenity of the Hero and Joy of the "Spectator-Artist" The Joyfully Fraternal Struggle between Two Sublimities The Musical Essence of Joy List of Abbreviations Notes Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Index