CONTENTS Abbreviations vii INTRODUCTION 1 i. O Man! Attend! 2 ii. What does deep midnight's voice contend? 6 iii. I slept my sleep, And now awake at dreaming's end 7 iv. The world is deep, Deeper than day can comprehend 8 v. Deep is its woe 13 vi. Joy - deeper than heart's agony; Woe says: Fade! Go! 14 vii. But all joy wants eternity, Wants deep, deep, deep eternity 16 1 PHILOSOPHY AS LOVE OF FATE 17 i. What is the Task of Philosophy? 21 ii. The Philosopher as Philologist and Physician 27 iii. The Philosopher as Legislator 29 iv. Freedom and Fatum: Nietzsche's Body 34 2 HISTORY AS SELF-CREATION 55 i. The Way to Wisdom: Camel, Lion, Child 56 ii. The Discovery of History in Hegel 71 iii. Nietzsche versus Hegel 81 iv. Of the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life 84 v. Finding a Style to Philosophize 89 3 OF SCIENCE AND NIHILISM 95 i. Nihilism : God is Dead 96 ii. From the Birth of Tragedy to the Question of Science 103 iii. The Birth of Physics 107 iv. The Meaning of 'The Critical Phase' 115 v. Good and Bad Science: the Art of Genealogy 120 4 THE ETERNAL RETURN OF THE SAME 124 i. The Ontological Face of the Eternal Return of the Same 129 ii. The Ethical Face of the Eternal Return of the Same 138 iii The Experience of the Eternal Return of the Same 144 iv. Last Human, Higher Human and Overhuman 153 v. The Eternal Return of the Same as Religion 159 CONCLUSION : THE WILL TO POWER 165 Further Reading 171 Index 174