Introduction to the English-Language Edition
Harrison Fluss
Part 1 Nietzsche in His Time: In Struggle against Socratism and Judaism
1 The Crisis of Culture from Socrates to the Paris Commune
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The Birth of Tragedy as a Re-interpretation of Hellenism?
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Tragic Hellenism as Antidote to 'Weak ' Modernity
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The Paris Commune and the Threat of a 'Horrifying Destruction ' of Culture
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The Suicide of Tragic Hellenism as Metaphor for the Suicide of the ancien régime
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From the Anti-Napoleonic Wars to The Birth of Tragedy
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The Young Nietzsche 's Adherence to German National Liberalism
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'German Pessimism ', 'Serious View of the World ', 'Tragic View of the World '
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The 'German Spirit ' as 'Saviour ' and 'Redeemer ' of Zivilisation
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'Optimism ', 'Happiness ' and Revolutionary Drift: Nietzsche 's Radicalism
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An Anti-Pelagian Reconquest of Christianity?
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Christianity as Subversive and a 'Religion of the Learned '
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Eva, Persephone and Prometheus: The Reinterpretation of Original Sin
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'Greek Serenity ', 'Sensualism ' and Socialism
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The Apolline, the Dionysiac and the Social Question
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Athens and Jerusalem; Apollo and Jesus, Dionysus and Apollo
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Art, Politics and Kulturkritik
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An Appeal for a 'Struggle against Civilisation '
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Manifesto of the Party of the Tragic View of the World
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Universal History, Universal Judgement, Divine Justice, Theodicy, Cosmodicy
2 Tradition, Myth and the Critique of Revolution
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'Prejudice ' and 'Instinct ': Burke and Nietzsche
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Hubris of Reason and 'Neocriticistic ' Reaction
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The Radicalisation of Neo-criticism: Truth as Metaphor
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Human Rights and Anthropocentrism
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'Metaphysics of Genius ' and Cultural Elitism
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The 'Doric State ' as Dictatorship in the Service of the Production of Genius
3 Socratism and 'Present-Day Judaism '
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Aryan 'Tragic Profundity ' and the 'Despicable Jewish Phrase '
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Socratism and the Jewish Press in the Struggle against Germanness
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Judaism in Music and in The Birth of Tragedy
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Dionysian Germany and the 'Treacherous Dwarfs '
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Alexandrianism, Judaism and the 'Jewish-Roman ' World
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On the Threshold of a Conspiracy Theory
4 The Founding of the Second Reich, and Conflicting Myths of Origin
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In Search of Hellenism and a volkstümlich Germanness
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Greeks, Christians, Germans and Indo-Europeans
3
Nietzsche and the Greco-Germanic Myth of Origin
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Imitation of France and Germany 's Abdication of its Mission
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Social Conflict and the National-Liberal Recovery of the 'Old Faith '
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The Young Nietzsche, the Struggle against 'Secularisation ' and the Defence of the 'Old Faith '
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'Secularisation ' and Crisis of Myths of Origin
5 From the 'Judaism ' of Socrates to the 'Judaism ' of Strauss
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Myths of Origin and Anti-Semitism
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Strauss, Judaism and the Threat to German Language and Identity
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'Jewish International ' and 'Aesthetic International '
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Superficial Culture [Gebildetheit] and Judaism
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Philistinism and Judaism
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Judeophobia, Anti-Semitism and Theoretical and Artistic Surplus in Nietzsche and Wagner
Part 2 Nietzsche in His Time: Four Successive Approaches to the Critique of Revolution
6 The 'Solitary Rebel ' Breaks with Tradition and the 'Popular Community '
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Prussia 's 'Popular Enlightenment ' as Betrayal of the 'True German Spirit '
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The Germanic Myth of Origin and the Condemnation of Hegel
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Delegitimisation of Modernity and Diagnosis of the 'Historical Sickness '
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From the 'Christian ' Critique of the Philosophy of History to the Critique of the Philosophy of History as Secularised Christianity
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Philosophy of History, Modernity and Massification
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Philosophy of History, élitism and the Return of Anthropocentrism
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Cult of Tradition and Pathos of Counterrevolutionary Action
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'Schopenhauer 's Human Being ' as Antagonist of 'Rousseau 's Human Being ' and of Revolution
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Two Intellectual Types: The 'Deferential Bum ' and the 'Solitary Rebel '
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Schopenhauer, Wagner and 'Consecration ' for the 'Battle '
7 The 'Solitary Rebel ' Becomes an 'Enlightener '
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The Gründerjahre, Nietzsche 's Disenchantment, and the Banishing of the Spectres of Greece
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Taking One 's Distance from Germanomania and the Break with the German National Liberals
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Critique of Chauvinism and the Beginning of the 'Enlightenment '
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The Deconstruction of the Christian-Germanic Myth of Origin
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The Re-interpretation of the History of Germany: Condemnations and Rehabilitations
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Europe, Asia and (Reinterpreted) Greece
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Enlightenment, Judaism and the Unity of Europe
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Voltaire against Rousseau: Reinterpretation and Rehabilitation of the Enlightenment
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Nietzsche and the Anti-revolutionary Enlightenment
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The 'Wandering ' Philosopher
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Nietzsche in the School of Strauss
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Biography, Psychology and History in the 'Enlightenment ' turn
8 From Anti-revolutionary 'Enlightenment ' to the Encounter with the Great Moralists
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Distrust of Moral Sentiments and Delegitimisation of the Appeal to 'Social Justice '
2
Plebeian Pressure, Moral Sentiments and 'Moral Enlightenment '
3
The 'Saint ' and the Revolutionary 'Martyr ': Altruism and Narcissism
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History, Science and Morality
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Morality and Revolution
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Expanding the Range of Social Conflict and Encountering the Moralists: 'Good Conscience ', 'Enchantment ' and the 'Evil Eye '
9 Between German National Liberalism and European Liberalism
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Representative Organs, Universal Suffrage and Partitocracy
2
From the Statism of the Greek Polis to Socialism: Nietzsche, Constant and Tocqueville
3
Political Realism and Antiquitising Utopia
4
Nietzsche, European Liberalism and the Complaint about the Crisis of Culture
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The Mediocrity of the Modern World and the Spectre of European 'chinoiserie '
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Jews, Colonial Peoples and the Mob: Inclusion and Exclusion
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The Unity and the Peace of Europe and the Enduring Value of War
10 The Poet of the 'People 's Community ', the 'Solitary Rebel ', the Anti-revolutionary 'Enlightener ' and the Theorist of 'Aristocratic Radicalism '
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From 'Enlightenment ' Turn to Immoralist Turn
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Anti-socialist Laws, 'Practical Christianity ' and Wilhelm I 's 'Indecency '
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From Critique of the Social State to Critique of the 'Representative Constitution '
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'[W]e Cannot Help Being Revolutionaries '
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The Shadow of Suspicion Falls on the Moralists
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Hegel and Nietzsche: Two Opposing Critiques of the Moral Worldview
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From Universal Guilt to the Innocence of Becoming
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Four Stages in Nietzsche 's Development
11 'Aristocratic Radicalism ' and the 'New Party of Life '
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The 'New Party of Life '
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'New Nobility ' and 'New Slavery '
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Aristocratic Distinction and Social Apartheid
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Aristocracy, Bourgeoisie and Intellectuals
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From Cultural Elitism to Caesarism
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Feminist Movement and 'Universal Uglification '
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A 'New Warrior Age '
Part 3 Nietzsche in His Time: Theory and Practice of Aristocratic Radicalism
12 Slavery in the United States and in the Colonies and the Struggle between Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
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The Chariot of Culture and Slavery
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Nietzsche, Slavery and the Anti-abolitionist Polemic
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Between Reintroduction of Classical Slavery and 'New Slavery '
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Labour and servitus in the Liberal Tradition
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The American Civil War, the Debate on the Role of Labour and the Special Nature of Germany
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Otium and Labour: Freedom and Slavery of the Ancients and the Moderns
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Marx, Nietzsche and 'Extra Work '
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Race of Masters and Race of Servants: Boulainvilliers, Gobineau, Nietzsche
13 'Hierarchy ', Great Chain of Being and Great Chain of Pain
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The Chariot of Culture and Compassion for the Slaves
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The Chariot of Culture and the Resentment of the Slaves
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Misery of the Poor and Responsibility and Boredom of the Rich
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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Between 'Tragic ' Vision of Life and Relapse into Harmonisation
14 The 'Uneducated Masses ', the 'Freethinker ' and the 'Free Spirit ': Critique and Meta-critique of Ideology
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Chains and Flowers: the Critique of Ideology between Marx and Nietzsche
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Ideology as Legitimation of and Challenge to the Existing Social Order
3
Direct Violence and Form of Universality
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From National-Liberal Reticence to the Duplicity of Aristocratic Radicalism
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Religions as 'Means of Breeding and Education ' in the Hands of the Ruling Classes
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The City, the Newspaper and the Plebeians
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'Free Spirits ' versus 'Freethinkers '
15 From the Critique of the French Revolution to the Critique of the Jewish-Christian Revolution
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Revolutionary Crisis and Acceleration of Historical Time
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From the French Revolution to the Reformation, from the Reformation to the Christian and Jewish 'Priestly Agitators '
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Christianity and Revolution
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Denunciation of the Revolution, Critique of 'Hope ' and Critique of the Unilinear View of Time
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Doctrine of the Eternal Return and Liquidation of Anthropocentrism (from Judaism to the French Revolution)
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Aristocratic Radicalism and Renewed Expulsion of Judaism to Asia
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The Struggle against the Jewish-Christian Tradition and the Reconquest of the West
16 The Long Cycle of Revolution and the Curse of Nihilism
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Three Waves of 'Nihilism '
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'Total Revolution ' and Political, 'Metaphysical ' and 'Poetic ' Nihilism
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Possible Attitudes towards Nihilism
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Nihilistic Rebelliousness as Critique and Meta-critique
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Unease, Charm and the Curse of Nihilism in Nietzsche
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Total Revolution, Attack on the 'Great Economy of the Whole ' and Nihilism
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Total Negation, Nihilism and Madness
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A Polemical Category
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At the Source of Nihilism: Ruling Classes or Subaltern Classes?
17 The Late Nietzsche and the Longed-for Coup against the 'Social Monarchy ' of Wilhelm II and Stöcker
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Germany as a Hotbed of Revolutionary Contagion
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Between Friedrich III and Wilhelm II
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The Emancipation of the 'Black Domestic Slaves ' and Wilhelm II, the 'Brown Idiot '
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The 'Social Monarchy ' of Stöcker and Wilhelm II and the Counterrevolution Hoped for by Bismarck
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'Anti-German League ' and Coup against Wilhelm II
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Big Jewish Capital, Prussian 'Aristocratic Officers ' and Eugenic Cross-breeding
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'Aristocratic Radicalism ' and the Party of Friedrich III
18 'Anti-Anti-Semitism ' and the Extension to Christians and 'Anti-Semites ' of the Anti-socialist Laws
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Anti-Jewish Polemic of the Christians and Anti-Christian Polemic of the Jews
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Stöcker and Disraeli: the Linking of Inclusion and Exclusion between Germany and Britain
3
Germany, France, Russia and the Jews
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Nietzsche and the Three
