Notes on Contributors x

A Note on References to Nietzsche's Works xv

A Note on Translated Essays xviii

A Note on Cross-References xix

Chronology of Nietzsche's Life and Work xx

1 Friedrich Nietzsche: An Introduction to his Thought, Life, and Work 1
Keith Ansell Pearson

2 Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism 22
Jill Marsden

Part I ART, NATURE, AND INDIVIDUATION 39

3 The Aesthetic Justification of Existence 41
Daniel Came

4 Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in Nature 58
Elaine P. Miller

5 The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche 76
Nuno Nabais

Part II NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE 95

6 Nietzsche's "Gay" Science 97
Babette E. Babich

7 Nietzsche and Philosophical Anthropology 115
Richard Schacht

8 Nietzsche's Philosophy and True Religion 133
Laurence Lampert

9 The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil 148
Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick

Part III ETERNAL RECURRENCE, THE OVERHUMAN, AND NIHILISM 169

10 Identity and Eternal Recurrence 171
Paul S. Loeb

11 Nietzsche and Cosmology 189
Robin Small

12 Nietzsche on Time and Becoming 208
John Richardson

13 The Incorporation of Truth: Towards the Overhuman 230
Keith Ansell Pearson

14 Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche 250
Andreas Urs Sommer

Part IV PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 271

15 The Body, the Self, and the Ego 273
Volker Gerhardt

16 Phenomenology and Science in Nietzsche 297
Peter Poellner

17 Naturalism and Nietzsche's Moral Psychology 314
Christa Davis Acampora

Part V PHILOSOPHY AND GENEALOGY 335

18 Naturalism and Genealogy 337
Christopher Janaway

19 The Philosophical Function of Genealogy 353
Robert Guay

20 Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals 371
Robert B. Pippin

Part VI ETHICS 387

21 Nietzsche and Ethics 389
Paul J. M. van Tongeren

22 Rebaptizing our Evil: On the Revaluation of All Values 404
Kathleen Marie Higgins

23 Nietzsche's Fatalism 419
Robert C. Solomon

Part VII POLITICS 435

24 Nietzsche contra Liberalism on Freedom 437
Herman Siemens

25 Nietzsche and National Identity 455
Diane Morgan

Part VIII AESTHETICS 475

26 Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics 477
Gary Shapiro

27 Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Ontology of Music 495
Christoph Cox

Part IX EVOLUTION AND LIFE: THE WILL TO POWER 515

28 Nietzsche and Evolutionary Theory 517
Gregory Moore

29 Life and Self-Overcoming 532
Daniel W. Conway

30 Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to Power 548
James I. Porter

31 A Critique of the Will to Power 565
Henry Staten

Index 583