Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

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 1 The Birth of Tragedy as a Re-interpretation of Hellenism? 2 Tragic Hellenism as Antidote to 'Weak ' Modernity 3 The Paris Commune and the Threat of a 'Horrifying Destruction ' of Culture 4 The Suicide of Tragic Hellenism as Metaphor for the Suicide of the ancien régime 5 From the Anti-Napoleonic Wars to The Birth of Tragedy 6 The Young Nietzsche 's Adherence to German National Liberalism 7 'German Pessimism ', 'Serious View of the World ', 'Tragic View of the World ' 8 The 'German Spirit ' as 'Saviour ' and 'Redeemer ' of Zivilisation 9 'Optimism ', 'Happiness ' and Revolutionary Drift: Nietzsche 's Radicalism 10 An Anti-Pelagian Reconquest of Christianity? 11 Christianity as Subversive and a 'Religion of the Learned ' 12 Eva, Persephone and Prometheus: The Reinterpretation of Original Sin 13 'Greek Serenity ', 'Sensualism ' and Socialism 14 The Apolline, the Dionysiac and the Social Question 15 Athens and Jerusalem; Apollo and Jesus, Dionysus and Apollo 16 Art, Politics and Kulturkritik 17 An Appeal for a 'Struggle against Civilisation ' 18 Manifesto of the Party of the Tragic View of the World 19 Universal History, Universal Judgement, Divine Justice, Theodicy, Cosmodicy 2 Tradition, Myth and the Critique of Revolution 1 'Prejudice ' and 'Instinct ': Burke and Nietzsche 2 Hubris of Reason and 'Neocriticistic ' Reaction 3 The Radicalisation of Neo-criticism: Truth as Metaphor 4 Human Rights and Anthropocentrism 5 'Metaphysics of Genius ' and Cultural Elitism 6 The 'Doric State ' as Dictatorship in the Service of the Production of Genius 3 Socratism and 'Present-Day Judaism ' 1 Aryan 'Tragic Profundity ' and the 'Despicable Jewish Phrase ' 2 Socratism and the Jewish Press in the Struggle against Germanness 3 Judaism in Music and in The Birth of Tragedy 4 Dionysian Germany and the 'Treacherous Dwarfs ' 5 Alexandrianism, Judaism and the 'Jewish-Roman ' World 6 On the Threshold of a Conspiracy Theory 4 The Founding of the Second Reich, and Conflicting Myths of Origin 1 In Search of Hellenism and a volkstümlich Germanness 2 Greeks, Christians, Germans and Indo-Europeans 3 Nietzsche and the Greco-Germanic Myth of Origin 4 Imitation of France and Germany 's Abdication of its Mission 5 Social Conflict and the National-Liberal Recovery of the 'Old Faith ' 6 The Young Nietzsche, the Struggle against 'Secularisation ' and the Defence of the 'Old Faith ' 7 'Secularisation ' and Crisis of Myths of Origin 5 From the 'Judaism ' of Socrates to the 'Judaism ' of Strauss 1 Myths of Origin and Anti-Semitism 2 Strauss, Judaism and the Threat to German Language and Identity 3 'Jewish International ' and 'Aesthetic International ' 4 Superficial Culture [Gebildetheit] and Judaism 5 Philistinism and Judaism 6 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 ' 1 Prussia 's 'Popular Enlightenment ' as Betrayal of the 'True German Spirit ' 2 The Germanic Myth of Origin and the Condemnation of Hegel 3 Delegitimisation of Modernity and Diagnosis of the 'Historical Sickness ' 4 From the 'Christian ' Critique of the Philosophy of History to the Critique of the Philosophy of History as Secularised Christianity 5 Philosophy of History, Modernity and Massification 6 Philosophy of History, élitism and the Return of Anthropocentrism 7 Cult of Tradition and Pathos of Counterrevolutionary Action 8 'Schopenhauer 's Human Being ' as Antagonist of 'Rousseau 's Human Being ' and of Revolution 9 Two Intellectual Types: The 'Deferential Bum ' and the 'Solitary Rebel ' 10 Schopenhauer, Wagner and 'Consecration ' for the 'Battle ' 7 The 'Solitary Rebel ' Becomes an 'Enlightener ' 1 The Gründerjahre, Nietzsche 's Disenchantment, and the Banishing of the Spectres of Greece 2 Taking One 's Distance from Germanomania and the Break with the German National Liberals 3 Critique of Chauvinism and the Beginning of the 'Enlightenment ' 4 The Deconstruction of the Christian-Germanic Myth of Origin 5 The Re-interpretation of the History of Germany: Condemnations and Rehabilitations 6 Europe, Asia and (Reinterpreted) Greece 7 Enlightenment, Judaism and the Unity of Europe 8 Voltaire against Rousseau: Reinterpretation and Rehabilitation of the Enlightenment 9 Nietzsche and the Anti-revolutionary Enlightenment 10 The 'Wandering ' Philosopher 11 Nietzsche in the School of Strauss 12 Biography, Psychology and History in the 'Enlightenment ' turn 8 From Anti-revolutionary 'Enlightenment ' to the Encounter with the Great Moralists 1 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 4 History, Science and Morality 5 Morality and Revolution 6 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 1 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 5 The Mediocrity of the Modern World and the Spectre of European 'chinoiserie ' 6 Jews, Colonial Peoples and the Mob: Inclusion and Exclusion 7 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 ' 1 From 'Enlightenment ' Turn to Immoralist Turn 2 Anti-socialist Laws, 'Practical Christianity ' and Wilhelm I 's 'Indecency ' 3 From Critique of the Social State to Critique of the 'Representative Constitution ' 4 '[W]e Cannot Help Being Revolutionaries ' 5 The Shadow of Suspicion Falls on the Moralists 6 Hegel and Nietzsche: Two Opposing Critiques of the Moral Worldview 7 From Universal Guilt to the Innocence of Becoming 8 Four Stages in Nietzsche 's Development 11 'Aristocratic Radicalism ' and the 'New Party of Life ' 1 The 'New Party of Life ' 2 'New Nobility ' and 'New Slavery ' 3 Aristocratic Distinction and Social Apartheid 4 Aristocracy, Bourgeoisie and Intellectuals 5 From Cultural Elitism to Caesarism 6 Feminist Movement and 'Universal Uglification ' 7 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 1 The Chariot of Culture and Slavery 2 Nietzsche, Slavery and the Anti-abolitionist Polemic 3 Between Reintroduction of Classical Slavery and 'New Slavery ' 4 Labour and servitus in the Liberal Tradition 5 The American Civil War, the Debate on the Role of Labour and the Special Nature of Germany 6 Otium and Labour: Freedom and Slavery of the Ancients and the Moderns 7 Marx, Nietzsche and 'Extra Work ' 8 Race of Masters and Race of Servants: Boulainvilliers, Gobineau, Nietzsche 13 'Hierarchy ', Great Chain of Being and Great Chain of Pain 1 The Chariot of Culture and Compassion for the Slaves 2 The Chariot of Culture and the Resentment of the Slaves 3 Misery of the Poor and Responsibility and Boredom of the Rich 4 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 1 Chains and Flowers: the Critique of Ideology between Marx and Nietzsche 2 Ideology as Legitimation of and Challenge to the Existing Social Order 3 Direct Violence and Form of Universality 4 From National-Liberal Reticence to the Duplicity of Aristocratic Radicalism 5 Religions as 'Means of Breeding and Education ' in the Hands of the Ruling Classes 6 The City, the Newspaper and the Plebeians 7 'Free Spirits ' versus 'Freethinkers ' 15 From the Critique of the French Revolution to the Critique of the Jewish-Christian Revolution 1 Revolutionary Crisis and Acceleration of Historical Time 2 From the French Revolution to the Reformation, from the Reformation to the Christian and Jewish 'Priestly Agitators ' 3 Christianity and Revolution 4 Denunciation of the Revolution, Critique of 'Hope ' and Critique of the Unilinear View of Time 5 Doctrine of the Eternal Return and Liquidation of Anthropocentrism (from Judaism to the French Revolution) 6 Aristocratic Radicalism and Renewed Expulsion of Judaism to Asia 7 The Struggle against the Jewish-Christian Tradition and the Reconquest of the West 16 The Long Cycle of Revolution and the Curse of Nihilism 1 Three Waves of 'Nihilism ' 2 'Total Revolution ' and Political, 'Metaphysical ' and 'Poetic ' Nihilism 3 Possible Attitudes towards Nihilism 4 Nihilistic Rebelliousness as Critique and Meta-critique 5 Unease, Charm and the Curse of Nihilism in Nietzsche 6 Total Revolution, Attack on the 'Great Economy of the Whole ' and Nihilism 7 Total Negation, Nihilism and Madness 8 A Polemical Category 9 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 1 Germany as a Hotbed of Revolutionary Contagion 2 Between Friedrich III and Wilhelm II 3 The Emancipation of the 'Black Domestic Slaves ' and Wilhelm II, the 'Brown Idiot ' 4 The 'Social Monarchy ' of Stöcker and Wilhelm II and the Counterrevolution Hoped for by Bismarck 5 'Anti-German League ' and Coup against Wilhelm II 6 Big Jewish Capital, Prussian 'Aristocratic Officers ' and Eugenic Cross-breeding 7 '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 1 Anti-Jewish Polemic of the Christians and Anti-Christian Polemic of the Jews 2 Stöcker and Disraeli: the Linking of Inclusion and Exclusion between Germany and Britain 3 Germany, France, Russia and the Jews 4 Nietzsche and the Three