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List of contents
Introduction Otfried Höffe; Part I. The Aesthetic Dimension: 1. Nietzsche's conception of irony Ernst Behler; 2. Nietzsche, philosopher of music Richard Klein; 3. Artistic metaphysics: on Nietzsche's early program for an aesthetic justification of the world Volker Gerhardt; 4. 'The three metamorphoses': a genealogy of the spirit Annemarie Pieper; Part II. Philosophical Themes: 5. Nietzsche's invention of the pre-Socratics Tilman Borsche; 6. Nietzsche's stance toward ancient and modern enlightenment Henning Ottmann; 7. 'An animal that may make promises' Otfried Höffe; Part III. Power and Truth: 8. Nietzsche's doctrine of the will to power Wolfgang Müller-Lauter; 9. Nietzsche on the sovereignty of perspectival reason in philosophy Friedrich Kaulbach; 10. On the question of dialectics in Nietzsche's epistemology Alfred Schmidt; 11. Nietzsche's concept of truth Rüdiger Bittner; Part IV. Religion and Religiosity: 12. The tremendous moment Jörg Salaquarda; 13. Nietzsche's critique of the reason of his life: on the interpretation of The Antichrist and Ecce Homo Werner Stegmaier.
About the author
Otfried Höffe is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and Director of the Research Centre for Political Philosophy.
Summary
This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy, ranging over his concept of irony, his thoughts on music, his relation to the pre-Socratics, his concept of truth, and numerous other topics. Many of the essays appear in English here for the first time, and all are newly translated for the volume.
