Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- WORKS BY NIETZSCHE -- OTHER WORKS -- PART ONE YOUTH -- 1 Da Capo -- Röcken -- Naumburg -- God -- 2 Pforta -- A Divided Heritage -- The Curriculum -- The Germania Society -- Religious Doubt -- Teenage Rebellion -- New Friends -- Leaving School -- Literary Works 1858-1864 -- Religion -- Music -- Tragedy -- Poetry -- Morality and Politics -- Homeland versus World Citizenship -- Fate and Freedom -- 3 Bonn -- Free at Last -- Beer-Drinking on the Rhine -- The Cologne Brothel -- David Strauss and the Critique of Christianity -- Leaving Bonn -- 4 Leipzig -- Getting Settled -- Happy Times -- The Study of Classics -- War and Politics -- Military Service -- Return to Leipzig: First Meeting with Wagner -- 'Fairy-Tale-Like and Seven-League-Bootish' -- 5 Schopenhauer -- The World as Will and Representation -- Nietzsche's Conversion -- The Impact of Kant and Lange -- Criticising Schopenhauer -- Reconstructing Schopenhauer -- PART TWO THE RELUCTANT PROFESSOR -- 6 Basel -- Basel in 1870 -- University Life -- Colleagues and Friends -- Burckhardt -- Overbeck -- Isle of the Blessed -- The End of an Idyll -- 7 Richard Wagner and the Birth of The Birth of Tragedy -- The Wagnerian Worldview -- The Artwork of the Future -- The Impact of Schopenhauer -- The Wisdom of Silenus -- Homer's Art -- Greek Tragedy -- The Role of Myth -- Solution to the Riddle of Wagner's Relation to the Greeks -- Socrates and the Death of Tragedy -- What Is Wrong with The Way We Are Now? -- 8 War and Aftermath -- The Franco-Prussian War -- Nietzsche's War -- The Aftermath -- Violence -- Prussia -- On the Future of Our Educational Institutions -- 9 Anal Philology -- Rohde's 'Higher Advertising' -- Wilamowitz's Counterblast -- Alienation of Ritschl -- Wagner's Intervention.

Von Bülow and the 'Manfred Meditation' -- Retreat to the Mountains -- Anal-Compulsive Philology -- Existential Philology -- Relations with the Wagners -- Five Prefaces to Five Unwritten Books -- 10 Untimely Meditations -- Fun in Basel -- Gloom in Bayreuth -- First Untimely Meditation: David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer -- Rest Cure in Flims -- The Rosalie Nielsen Affair -- Summons to the Germans -- Second Untimely Meditation: The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life -- Notes from the Underground -- 11 Aimez-vous Brahms? -- Depression, Marriage, and Dropping Out -- Wagner in the Balance -- The Home Front, a New Publisher, Women -- Bergün -- Brahms Banned in Bayreuth -- Third Untimely Meditation: Schopenhauer as Educator -- Christmas at Home and the 'Hymn to Friendship' -- 12 Auf Wiedersehen Bayreuth -- We Philologists -- A Review, a Farewell to Romundt, a Birthday Greeting to Wagner, and a Health Crisis -- 'Cure' in Steinabad -- A New Apartment and New Friends: Paul Rée and Heinrich Köselitz -- Veytaux, Geneva, and a Marriage Proposal -- Wagner in Bayreuth -- The First Bayreuth Festival -- Return to Bayreuth and a Flirtation -- 13 Sorrento -- Going South -- Malwida von Meysenbug -- The Villa Rubinacci -- Rosenlaui: Nietzsche and Sherlock Holmes -- Back in Basel -- The Shocking Incident of the Friendly Doctor and the Doctoring Friend -- 14 Human, All-Too-Human -- The Turn to Positivism -- The Free Spirit: Nietzsche and the Life-Reform Movement -- The Monastery for Free Spirits -- Human, All-Too-Human: The Attack on Metaphysics -- Why Deconstruct Metaphysics? -- Nietzsches Higher Culture -- The Theory of Cultural Evolution -- Rational Living: Slavery, Punishment, Euthanasia, Eugenics, Conservation -- Religion and Art in a Higher Culture -- Globalization -- The Problem of Free Will -- On Mans Need for Metaphysics -- PART THREE THE NOMAD.

15 The Wanderer and His Shadow -- Reception of Human, All-Too-Human -- Assorted Opinions and Maxims -- Leaving Basel -- St. Moritz -- Health and Epicurus -- The Wanderer and His Shadow -- Building Walden Two -- Women -- Is Nietzsche a Democrat? -- Naumburg, Riva, Venice, Marienbad, Stresa -- Genoa, Recoaro, and Sils Maria -- 16 Dawn -- A Book for Slow Readers -- Happiness -- The Theoretical Framework -- Critique of Christian Metaphysics -- Critique of Christian Morality -- The Counter-Ideal to Christianity -- Self-Creation -- The Paradox of Happiness -- The Heroic-Idyllic -- Benevolent Egoism -- Concrete Advice -- The Status of the Theoretical Framework -- 17 The Gay Science -- First Summer in Sils Maria -- Enter Eternal Return -- Second Winter in Genoa -- Carmen, St. Januarius, Rée, and Sarah Bernhardt -- Messina -- Idylls from Messina -- The Gay Science -- The Main Argument -- Cultural Evolution -- The Way We Are Now -- Nietzsches Future -- Life as an Artwork -- Reality, Truth, and Knowledge -- 18 The Salomé Affair -- Lou Salomé -- Nietzsche in Rome -- The Mystery of Sacro Monte and the 'Whip' Photograph -- Underhand Dealings -- Nietzsche in Tautenburg -- Elizabeth versus Lou -- She Said She Said He Said -- Lou in Tautenburg -- To Pain -- Family Rupture -- The End of the Affair -- Aftermath -- 19 Zarathustra -- Retreat to Rapallo -- Anti-anti-Semitism -- Nietzsche as Wagner's 'Heir' -- Second Summer in Sils Maria -- Continuation of the Salomé Affair -- The Shadow of Bernhard Förster -- First Winter in Nice -- Two Disciples -- A New Bible -- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Prologue -- Zarathustra Part I: The Speeches of Zarathustra -- Zarathustra Part II -- Zarathustra Part III -- Zarathustra Part IV -- The Ass Festival -- 20 Nietzsche's Circle of Women -- Joseph Paneth -- Resa von Schirnhofer -- The 'Other' Nietzsche -- Meta von Salis.

Third Summer in Sils Maria -- Helen Zimmern -- Heinrich von Stein -- Reconciliation with Elizabeth in Zurich -- Helene Druskowicz -- Second Winter in Nice -- Fourth Summer in Sils Maria -- Nietzsche and His Feminist Friends -- The Försters -- The 'Schmeitzner Misère' -- Third Winter in Nice -- Nietzsche's Cosmopolitanism -- Publishing Beyond Good and Evil -- 'Dynamite', 'Junker Philosophy', 'Pathological' -- 21 Beyond Good and Evil -- The Heart of Darkness -- Theoretical Philosophy: The 'Prejudices' of Metaphysicians -- The Metaphysics of Power -- Epistemology -- Cultural Criticism -- How to Overcome Diseased Modernity: Philosophers of the Future -- Nietzsches 'Republic' -- Hierarchy -- The Slavery Issue -- Women Again -- Morality, Religion, and Art in the New World -- 22 Clearing the Decks -- Fifth Summer in Sils Maria -- Explosions Below -- Hymn to Life -- A Month in the Country -- Fourth Winter in Nice -- Preparations for Greatness -- The Prefaces of 1886 -- The Gay Science, Book V: Being Scientific about Science -- The Wanderer Speaks -- Nietzsches Undiscovered Land -- Communal Health -- Mental Health -- 'A Lovely Thought: Via Sils to Greece!' -- 23 The Genealogy of Morals -- Parsifal, Dostoyevsky, and a 'Well-Intentioned' Earthquake -- Youths and Anti-Semites -- Intermezzo -- Depressed in Chur -- Fifth Summer in Sils Maria -- Fifth and Final Winter in Nice -- Literary Projects -- On the Genealogy of Morals -- First Essay: 'Good and Evil', 'Good and Bad' -- The First Essay's Contribution to a Vision of the Future -- Second Essay: The Morality of Custom and the Sovereign Individual -- Origins of the Bad Conscience -- The Second Essay's Contribution to a Vision of the Future -- Third Essay: What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean? -- Wagner and the Ascetic Ideal -- Sex and the Philosopher -- Perspectivism and Objectivity.

The Ascetic Ideal as Practised and Propagated by Priests -- The Ascetic Ideal in Modernity -- What Is Wrong with the Ascetic Ideal? -- Science and the Ascetic Ideal -- Masters of the Universe -- The Question of Method -- 24 1888 -- Winter in Nice -- First Visit to Turin -- Sic Incipit Gloria Mundi -- Last Summer in Sils Maria -- Visitors -- Writings in Sils Maria: The Wagner Case -- Décadence -- The Story of The Ring -- Writings in Sils Maria: Twilight of the Idols -- What Is the Nature of Reality? -- What Is Freedom? -- What Is Happiness? -- Why Is Willing the Eternal Return 'Dionysian'? -- How Can an 'Immoralist' Deal with Harmful Actions? -- Isnt Selfishness Harmful? -- Whats Wrong with the Germans? -- What Would You Like to See Replace Modern Culture? -- What Is the Place of Art in Your New Society? -- Last Stay in Turin -- The Antichrist -- Judaism and the Origin of Slave Morality -- The Historical Jesus -- Pauls Perversion -- The Charges against Christianity -- The Great Noon -- Religion in Nietzsches 'Republic' -- Ecce Homo -- How One Becomes What One Is -- What Nietzsche Became -- Deploying the Artillery -- Nietzsches Mental Condition -- 25 Catastrophe -- Becoming God -- The Horse Story -- 26 The Rise and Fall of The Will to Power -- The Casaubon Impulse -- The Explanation of All Events -- Revaluation of All Values -- History of a Failed Literary Project -- Intellectual Cleanliness -- The Cosmological Doctrine -- The Biological Doctrine -- The Psychological Doctrine -- What Remains of the Will to Power? -- The Problem of the -Healthy Monster' -- 27 The End -- In the Basel Clinic -- In the Jena Asylum -- In Naumburg -- Becoming a Star -- Elizabeth Cashes In -- The Shrine in Weimar -- Nietzsches Death -- 28 Nietzsche's Madness -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography of Secondary Literature -- Index.