A Nietzschean Bestiary by Acampora, Christa Davis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Abbreviations Translations Acknowledgments Introduction Nietzsche’s Feral Philosophy: Thinking through an Animal Imaginary PART ONE - ON “LOWLY” ORIGINS

APE - Who Is Zarathustra’s Ape?

The Ape as Representative of the Pudenda Origo of the Human The Ape as Representative of Superficial Mimicry and Imitation On Nietzschean Ideals: Apes, Camels, Lions, and Children Notes

CAMEL - A Sketch (Riβ) of the Camel in Zarathustra

Notes

POLYP - Polyp Man

From Machine Man to Polyp Man From Polyp Science to Polyp Politics and Psychology Of Polyps and Other Little Things Notes

PART TWO - ZARATHUSTRA’S ANIMALS

DOG - Dogs, Domestication, and the Ego

Notes

SPIDER - Arachnophobe or Arachnophile? Nietzsche and His Spiders

Notes

SNAKE - The Eternal-Serpentine

“On the Adder’s Bite” Varieties of Snakes The Serpent in Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche and Non-Christian Snake Imagery The Masculine Snake Eternity Without Fertility Notes

BIRD - The Halcyon Tone as Birdsong

Notes

COW - “Even Better than a Cow, O Zarathustra!”

Notes

ASS - Nietzsche and the Mystery of the Ass

The Historical Ass Festival “The Awakening” and “The Ass Festival” The Philosophical History of the Ass Conclusion Notes

PART THREE - BEASTS OF PREY

LION - Zarathustra’s Laughing Lions

Notes

“Beast” “Blond” and “Blond Beast” On the “Meaning” of the Metaphors “Beast” and “Blond Beast” Notes

BEASTS OF PREY - How We Became What We Are: Tracking the “Beasts of Prey”

I II III IV Notes

PART FOUR - HUMAN ANIMALS (UNTER, HALB, AND ÜBER)

Notes

WOMAN - Circe’s Truth: On the Way to Animals and Women

Robbing the Beasts First Place Dangerous Beasts of Prey Transvaluing the Whip Animal Taming and Training Ensphinxed Tierverstand: Animal Genius Truth as a Woman Philosophizing as Circe Notes

SATYR - Human-Animality In Nietzsche

Notes

OVERHUMAN - The Overhuman Animal

Part I: Memory and Forgetfulness Part II: The Promise Notes

PART FIVE - ANIMAL NIETZSCHE

MOLE - On Nietzsche’s Moles

The Misunderstood Animal Affirming the Earth But Not the Dark Genealogical Lessons of the Kogi Mamas Notes

CAT - The Cat at Play: Nietzsche’s Feline Styles

Notes

On Nietzsche and Animals Nietzsche’s Esoteric “Alchemy”: Laughter and Transfiguration To Have Ears for the Music of the Text: Nietzsche’s Rhetoric for All—and None Music and Words: Rhythm and Measure Spearing the Divine Lizard, or How One Becomes What One Is Music and Happiness: Bagpipes and the Smallest Joy Notes