Table of Contents


Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: The Problem of the Philosophy of Science and Nietzsche's Question of Ground

The Plan of the Text

Nietzsche's Musical Stylistics: Writing a Philosophy of Science

The Hermeneutic Challenge of Nietzsche's Elitism: Style and Interpretive Affinity

Philosophic Concinnity: The Spirit of Music and Nietzschean Style

The Project of Communication: Self-Deconstruction and Nietzschean Selectivity

Nietzsche's Style: A Mechanical Model

Science as Interpretation: The Light of Philology

The Question of a Nietzsche-Styled Philosophy of Science

Towards a Nietzschean Critique of Science

Nietzsche's Perspectivalism: The Spectre ofRelativism and the Spirit of Difference

Truth, Pragmatism, and Relativism: Realism a nd theReal

The Meaning of Critique: Nietzschean Possibilitiesfor Philosophy

Nietzsche and Science: The Question of Validity

On the Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge: Nietzsche's Epistemology

The Question of Nietzsche's Epistemology: Critique and Ground

The Knower and the Known

The Problem of Knowledge in its Ecophysiological Ground

The Empirical Basis of Transcendent Knowledge

Perspectivalism as Epistemology

Multiplicity as Interpretational Truth: The Metaphysical Fiction of an Absolute

A Note on the Typology of Science and Philosophy: The will to Power

Beyond Truth and Lie

Under the Optics of Art and Life: Nietzsche and Science

Resumé: The Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge

Science and Nihilism

Reality and Truth: The Domination of Truth

Science: Reality and Illusion

The Meaning of Nature and Chaos: A Note on Nietzsche's "Chaos sive natura"

Reality and Illusion: The Interpretive Dynamic

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Science: Morality and the Values of Modernity

The Genealogy of Morals and the Value of Science

The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation

Ressentiment : Science and Culture

Without Price: The Will to Truth as the Will toLife

Science and Inadequacy

Duplicity: Science and the Ascetic Ideal



The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation

Science as an Aesthetic Achievement: Méconnaissance

Vesuvius: "Gefährdete Menschen, fruchtbarer Menschen"

Toward a Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth

A Perspectivalist Philosophy of Science

A Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth

Truth as Illusion

The Illusion of Truth and the Question of the Eternal Feminine

Contra-Morality-Again

The Aesthetics of Illusion

Creation and Affirmation

A Dionysian Philosophy: Art in the Light of Life

The Eternal Return of the Same: Interpretation and Will

Ressentiment and Amor Fati

The Perspectival Dominance of Decadence

Dionysian Aesthetic Pessimism

The Troping of the Eternal Return: An Aposematic Aposiopesis

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

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