Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Nietzsche on the Self and Morality -- I.i. Introduction -- I.ii. The Self and the Christian Morality -- I.iii. Nietzsche's Critique of Kant -- I.iv. Nietzsche and Spinoza: Free will and Freedom -- I.v. Conclusion -- Chapter II: Nietzsche's Remedy -- II.i. Introduction -- II.ii. Nietzsche and Stoicism -- The Care of the Self -- A Modest Egoism -- II.iii. The Sovereign Individual -- Amor Fati -- Eternal Return -- II.iv. Conclusion -- Chapter III: Intermediate Reflections -- Philosophy and Literature -- Chapter IV: Musil on Epistemology, Culture and the Self -- IV.i. Introduction -- IV.ii. The Reception of Nietzsche in the German-speaking World and Lebensphilosophie -- IV.iii. The Epistemological Background: Cause-effect -- IV.iv. The Critique of Rationality -- The Sense of Possibility -- IV.v. Culture and the Individual -- IV.vi. Conclusion -- Chapter V: Musil on Ethics -- V.i. Introduction -- V.ii. Subjectivity, Free Will, Responsibility -- V.iii. Essayism -- V.iv. Ulrich's Company of Women -- V.v. 'The Other Condition' and Ethics -- V.vi. Conclusion: Ulrich Returns to the Parallel Campaign -- Chapter VI: Intermediate Reflections II: Metaphor, Irony and Simile -- Chapter VII: Atay on History and Authority -- VII.i. Introduction -- VII.ii. History: 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow' -- VII.iii. 'Words, words, words': Excess of Words -- VII.iv. Fathers and Sons: Authority and Bureaucracy -- VII.v. Comedy, Irony and the Subject -- VII.vi. Conclusion -- Chapter VIII: Atay on the Self -- VIII.i. Introduction -- VIII.ii. The Self -- VIII.iii. The Double -- VIII.iv. Intertextuality and the 'Dissolution of the Subject' -- VIII.v. The Originality Paradox -- VIII.vi. Originality: The Act of Reading -- VIII.vii. Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.