Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Being -- 1.1 The metaphysics of will to power -- 1.1.1 Power as growth in activity -- 1.1.2 Power as over others -- 1.2 Wills to power as perspectives -- 1.3 Will to power's basic forms: active versus reactive -- 1.4 Persons and societies as synthetic wills -- 1.5 The typology of persons -- 1.5.1 The master -- 1.5.2 The slave -- 1.5.3 The overman -- 2. Becoming -- 2.1 The temporal aspects of the power ontology -- 2.1.1 A world 'essentially changing' -- 2.1.2 Plato's attack on becoming -- 2.1.3 Nietzsche's theory of becoming -- 2.2 The temporality of the active and reactive -- 2.3 Persons' complex time -- 2.4 History as societies' time -- 2.5 The basic temporal types of persons -- 2.5.1 The master's active effort to preserve -- 2.5.2 The slave's revenge against time -- 2.5.3 The overman's embrace of becoming -- 3. Value -- 3.1 Nietzsche's advice: maximize power -- 3.1.1 Whose power? -- 3.1.2 Why power? -- 3.1.3 What power is -- 3.2 A broader self-interest -- 3.3 Nietzsche's politics -- 3.3.1 Against equality -- 3.3.2 For what type of inequality? -- 3.4 Nietzsche's ethics -- 3.4.1 Friends and enemies -- 3.4.2 Men and women -- 3.5 The force of Nietzsche's values -- 3.5.1 Against reflection? -- 3.5.2 Freedom and fate -- 3.5.3 Rank order -- 4. Truth -- 4.1 Against truth's possibility -- 4.1.1 Becoming can't be known -- 4.1.2 Knowing can't be detached -- 4.2 Against truth's value -- 4.3 The genealogy of the will to truth -- 4.3.1 As a tool of the drives -- 4.3.2 As ascetic opponent to the drives -- 4.3.3 In its active maturity -- 4.4 The new philosophers -- 4.5 Truth with perspectivism -- 4.5.1 The new truth method -- 4.5.2 The new truth goal -- 4.5.3 A Nietzschean metaphysics -- Appendix: A Nietzschean Vocabulary -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F.

G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.