Nietzsche on Time and History

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Abbreviations and Translations
• Nietzsche’s Critique of Staticism: Introduction to Nietzsche on Time and History
• Part I: Time, History, Method
  • Nietzsche’s Cultural Criticism and his Historical Methodology
  • Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams
  • The Late Nietzsche’s Fundamental Critique of Historical Scholarship
• Part II: Genealogy, Time, Becoming
  • Nietzsche’s Timely Genealogy: An Exercise in Anti-Reductionist Naturalism
  • From Kantian Temporality to Nietzschean Naturalism
  • Nietzsche’s Problem of the Past
  • Towards Adualism: Becoming and Nihilism in Nietzsche’s Philosophy
• Part III: Eternal Recurrence, Meaning, Agency
  • Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence Literally
  • Suicide, Meaning, and Redemption
  • Nietzsche and the Temporality of (Self-)Legislation
• Part IV: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries
  • Geschichte or Historie? Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Philological Studies
  • ‘An Uncanny Re-Awakening’: Nietzsche’s Renascence of the Renaissance out of the Spirit of Jacob Burckhardt
• Part V: Tragic and Musical Time
  • Metaphysical and Historical Claims in The Birth of Tragedy
  • Nietzsche’s Musical Conception of Time
• Backmatter