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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Translations of Nietzsche’s Writings
References to Nietzsche’s Writings
Abbreviations and References for Nietzsche
Abbreviations or ‘Siglen’ for Nietzsche’s Writings in German (in alphabetical order)
Introduction
Introducing the Agon
I Critical Transvaluation (Umwertung)
II Saying, Yes-Saying and Unsaying
III The Chapters
Chapter 1 The Art of Limited Warfare: Nietzsche’s Hammer and the Need to Find a Limit in Negation
Introduction
I Finding a Limit in the Negation of the Past
I Nietzsche’s ‘War-praxis’ or the Art of Limited Warfare
III Nietzsche’s Agonal Model of Warfare
Chapter 2 Nietzsche’s Agon and the Transvaluation of Humanism
Introduction
I Origin of the Idea
II Nietzsche’s Transvaluation of Humanism in Homer’s Wettkampf
III The Problem of Measure
III.1 Agonal Affects: Envy, Jealousy, Ambition
III.2 The Medial sense of measure
IV Nietzsche’s Counter-Ideal of Humanity: the Agon between the ‘Human’ and the ‘Inhuman’
Chapter 3 Performing the Agon: Towards an Agonal Model for Critical Transvaluation
Introduction
I Nietzsche’s Fictional Communities and Culture as Deception
II Formal and Dynamic Features of the Agon
II.1 Agonal Envy and Jealousy
II.2 Agonal Ambition and Egoism
III Agonal Culture as the Übertragung of War
Chapter 4 The First Transvaluation of All Values: Nietzsche’s Agon with Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy
I Overcoming Socrates: The Birth of Tragedy as Nietzsche’s first Transvaluation
II Plato’s Socrates: Art, Philosophy and the Practice of Dying in the Phaedo
III Nietzsche’s Socrates: the Practice of Music in The Birth of Tragedy
IV The Problem of Inversion and Nietzsche’s Duplicitous Optic in Art
IV.1 The Epistemic Reading
IV.2 The Agonal Reading
Conclusion: Agonal Critique
Chapter 5 Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen: The Problem of Origins, Originality and Mimesis in Genius and Culture (Nietzsche and Kant)
Introduction
I Schopenhauer as Kantian Genius
II The Problem of Originality and Precedent in Kant’s Account of Genius
Intermezzo: Nietzsche’s Programme of Aesthetic Perfectionism
III Nietzsche’s Engagement with Wagner: Daemonic Transmissability or Agonal Betrachten
IV Agonal Jealousy: Originality and Mimesis
V The Problem of German Culture and the Actuality of the Greeks
VI Succeeding to (Nachfolgen) the Greeks
VII Learning from the Greeks and the Übertragung of Alien Cultures
VIII The Greek Agon
IX Overcoming the Greeks
Chapter 6 Of (Self‐)Legislation, Life and Love
Introduction
I The Problem of Legislation: Sources and Features
II Schopenhauer and Wagner as Legislators
II.1 Schopenhauer als Erzieher (SE/UB III)
II.2 Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (UB IV/RWB)
III Zarathustra as Legislator-Type: Nietzsche’s Agonal Model of Self-Legislation
Appendix Zarathustra as Legislator-Type: The Texts
Chapter 7 Law and Community in the Agon: Agonal Communities of Taste and Lawfulness without a Law
Introduction
I Immanent DIKE
II Agonal Communities of Taste
II.1 Wisdom as Taste
II.2 The Normativity of Taste
II.3 Taste as Lawfulness without a Law
III Agonal Measure or the ‘Measure of Judgement’
III.1 Justice and Measure in Nietzsche's Agon and Homer's Iliad
III.2 Agonal Measure and Hannah Arendt on Freedom under Laws or ‘Principles’
Chapter 8 Nietzsche’s Agon with Ressentiment: Towards a Therapeutic Reading of Critical Transvaluation (Nietzsche and Freud)
Introduction: The Problematic of Sickness, Health and Redemption
I Dreams of Annihilation: the Problem of Repetition
II Agonal Transvaluation as Therapy
II.1 Agonal Hermeneutics and Beyond: the Problem of Energy
II. 2 Agonal Transference (Übertragung) as Therapy
III Nietzsche and Freud: Agonal and Analytic Transference
III.1 Analytic and Agonal Transference Therapy: Affinities and Differences
III.2 The Goals of Therapy: Affinities and Differences between Nietzsche and Freud
III.3 Sublimation, Play and the Mastery over Ressentiment
Chapter 9 Umwertung: Nietzsche’s ‘War-Praxis’ and the Problem of Yes-Saying and No-Saying in Ecce Homo
Introduction
I On War
II Nietzsche’s War-Praxis (EH Warum ich so weise bin 7)
III Nietzsche’s War-Praxis and the Standpoint of Total Affirmation
IV Consequences for Umwertung: the Question of ‘gegen’
Agon-Related Publications by the Author
Books
Chapters/Articles
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Notes
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