Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Citations of Nietzsche’s Works
Introduction
1 Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote
1.1 Valuing Animals
1.2 “Homer’s Wettkampf ” and the Good of the Second Eris
1.3 What Is an Agon? A Typology of Nietzsche’s Contests
1.4 Lessons from Pindar: The Economy of Agonistic Values and the Circulation of Power
1.5 The End of the Game: Hybris and Violence
1.6 Agon Model as Diagnostic
1.7 Wrestling with the Past: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Critique and Use of History
1.8 Introducing Nietzsche’s Agonists
2 Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value
2.1 Homer’s Contest as Exemplary Revaluation
2.2 The Apollinian (and the Dionysian): The Agon Begins
2.3 Deadly Modifi cations and the End of Agon
2.4 The Agon: Pessimism, Conservatism, and Racism
2.5 The Logic of the Contest
2.6 The “Ultimate Agony”: Agonistic Antipodes
3 Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche’s (Artful) Naturalism
3.1 Toward a “Superior Naturalism”
3.2 The Relation between Value and Inquiry
3.3 Toward the “Music-Practicing Socrates”
3.4 Semblance and Science
3.5 Artful Naturalism
3.6 Nietzsche’s Problem of Development and His Heraclitean Solution
3.7 The Subject Naturalized: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Model of the Soul
4 Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism
4.1 On the Possibility of Overcoming Morality
4.2 Fighting to the Death: The Agonies of Pauline Christianity
4.3 Confl icting Values and Worldviews
4.4 Sittlichkeit, Moral, and the Nature of Nietzsche’s Postmoralism
4.5 The (Moral) Subject Naturalized
4.6 “Das Thun ist Alles”
5 Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is
5.1 Becoming What One Is
5.2 The Promise and Problem of Wagner
5.3 Nietzsche’s Inheritance
5.4 Orders of Rank, Types, and Ruling Thoughts
5.5 Nietzsche as a Lover: Selfishness versus Selflessness
5.6 The Feeling of Power
5.7 Nietzsche’s Responsibility
5.8 Fighting Writing: Nietzsche’s Kriegs-Praxis
5.9 How One Becomes What One Is
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
