Description: A Note on Sources Introduction Part One: The Path to Nihilism 1. The Humanistic Tradition I. Birth of a Philologist; II. The Humanistic Tradition; III. The Origins of Humanism; IV. Humanism and Philosophy; V. Humanism and Liberalism; VI. The Ethics of Humanism; VII. Humanism Under Threat. 2. The Historical Model I. Historicism; II. The Empirical Foundations of Historicism; III. Varieties of Historicism. 3. Nietzsche's Concept of "Culture" I. Weltanschauung- Historicism; II. Historicism and Relativism; III. Nietzsche's Mature Theory of the Weltanschauung; IV. Wittgenstein's Contra Nietzsche. 4. Farewell to Reason I. Nietzsche on Contemporary Historiography; II. Romantic Historiography; III. Doubts About Philology; IV. Wagner on Historicism; V. Nietzsche Begins to Criticize Historicism; VI. Nietzsche Against Scholarly Values; VII. The Philology of the Future; VIII. Nietzsche's Critique of "Truth". Part Two: Dionysus Versus the Crucified 5. The Birth of Tragedy I. Nietzsche Leaves the University; II. Dionysus and Apollo; III. Dionysus and the Crucified; IV. The Greek Synthesis; V. Nietzsche's Repudiation of The Birth of Tragedy; VI. Wilamowitz Contra Nietzsche. 6. The New 'Ancient' I. Nietzsche in the Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns; II. Zarathustra; III. The Eternal Return; IV. Esoteric Nihilism. 7. The Free Spirit I. Nietzsche's "Intentions"; II. Nietzsche as Woman; III. The Politics of Nihilism; IV. The Overman. Part Three: A Vindication of the Last Man 8. Nietzsche Today I. The Modern Quarrel in the Humanities; II. A "Right" Nietzschean: Leo Strauss and his Followers; III. Strauss' Duplicitous Texts; IV. A "Left" Nietzschean: Jacques Derrida; V. A Critique of Deconstruction; VI. Deconstruction as a Kind of Phenomenology; VII. Strauss or Derrida? 9. The Postmodern Paradigm I. Two Paradigms for Cultural Diversity; II. The Question of Interpretation; III. The Politics of Contingency; IV. A Vindication of Humanism; V. The Good European. Notes Index

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