Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Nietzsche and nineteenth-century biologism -- Nietzsche on metaphor and rhetoric -- Part I Evolution -- 1 The physiology of power -- The problem of progress -- The aristocracy of the body -- Evolution and the increase of life -- 2 The physiology of morality -- Nietzsche contra Spencer -- Self-regulation and the social organism -- 3 The physiology of art -- The Kunsttrieb and evolution -- Art and evolutionary epistemology -- Eros and evolution -- Part II Degeneration -- 4 Nietzsche and the nervous age -- Degeneration: the physiology of decadence -- Sex, degeneration and eugenics -- 5 Christianity and degeneration -- Crime and Christianity -- The religious neurosis -- Race, religion and eugenics -- 6 Degenerate art -- The aesthetics of degeneration -- Hysteria and histrionics -- The case of Nietzsche -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.