Contesting Nietzsche by Acampora, Christa Davis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Citations of Nietzsche’s Works Introduction 1. Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote

2. Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value

2.1. Homer’s Contest as Exemplary Revaluation 2.2. The Apollinian (and the Dionysian): The Agon Begins 2.3. Deadly Modifications and the End of Agon 2.4. The Agon: Pessimism, Conservatism, and Racism 2.5. The Logic of the Contest 2.6. The “Ultimate Agony”: Agonistic Antipodes

3. Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche’s (Artful) Naturalism

3.1. Toward a “Superior Naturalism” 3.2. The Relation between Value and Inquiry 3.3. Toward the “Music-Practicing Socrates” 3.4. Semblance and Science 3.5. Artful Naturalism 3.6. Nietzsche’s Problem of Development and His Heraclitean Solution 3.7. The Subject Naturalized: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Model of the Soul

4. Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism

5. Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is

5.1. Becoming What One Is 5.2. The Promise and Problem of Wagner 5.3. Nietzsche’s Inheritance 5.4. Orders of Rank, Types, and Ruling Thoughts 5.5. Nietzsche as a Lover: Selfishness versus Selflessness 5.6. The Feeling of Power 5.7. Nietzsche’s Responsibility 5.8. Fighting Writing: Nietzsche’s Kriegs-Praxis 5.9. How One Becomes What One Is

Afterword Notes Bibliography Index