Index

Adorno, Theodor, 6

Alcibiades, 117

Alcyone, 164–65. See also Halcyon

Alderman, Harold, 42–43

Antigone, 156

Aphoristic writing, 22–23, 26

Apocalyptic themes, 38, 143

Aquinas, Thomas, 57

Aristotle, 5, 10, 24, 43, 44, 51, 53, 55–59, 102, 135, 152

Auerbach, Erich, 50

Augenblick. See Moment

Augustine, Saint, 50

Austin, J. L., 120

Bacon, Francis, 11, 143

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 36, 109, 122; on carnival laughter, 110; on comic spectacle, 107–108; on thrashing at carnival, 105–106

Balzac, Honoré de, 154

Barthes, Roland, 154

Bataille, Georges, 110

Bauer, Bruno, 131

Beckett, Samuel, 154

Bertram, Ernst, 30

Brandes, Georg, 124, 130

Breughel, Pieter, 108

Burckhardt, Jacob, 15–21

Burke, Kenneth, 103

Calendar, 147

Carnival, 98–99, 101, 105, 107–110, 113, 120, 122

Causality: critique of erroneous thoughts of, 27–28

Christianity, 90, ch. 5 passim; “Decree Against Christianity,” 146–47

Clown (Hanswurst), 107, 110–11

Colli, Giorgio, and Mazzino Montinari, 37, 145, 146, 159, 161, 162

Culture (Bildung), 98

Dante Alighieri, 57, 107

Danto, Arthur, 124, 126

Deleuze, Gilles, 7, 12, 13, 86

de Man, Paul, 8, 46

Derrida, Jacques, 3, 6, 11, 15, 30–34, 37, 44, 86, 119, 125, 136, 167; on carnivalesque laughter, 110–11; on Ecce Homo, 150; on Heidegger, 95; on hermeneutic readings, 35; reading of N., 7–8, 19–21; on semiotic history, 135; on undecidability, 124; “White Mythology,” 58–59

Descartes, René, 5, 11, 26, 27, 143

Dionysus, 56, 93, 99, 137, 155, 164, 166

Diotima, 79, 100, 109

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 127, 134, 135

Drama, 43–44

Dreams and dreaming, 24–27, 31–34, 68–70, 138, 166. See also Vision

Dreyfus, Hubert, 20

Editing: of Ecce Homo, 142, 151, 159, 161

Enemies, 60–61, 63

Envy, 61, 115

Erasure, 124–25, 136–37

Errors, four great, 27–29, 35–36

Eternal recurrence of the same, 9, 29, 37, 40, 47, 71–72, 78–96, 104, 121–23, 139, 165, 167

Euripides, 155

Festival 104, 107–108, 120–21

Fink, Eugen, 93, 95; criticism of The Anti-Christ, 125; on Zarathustra IV, 97–98

Forgetting, 90

Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth, 142, 159, 161, 162

Foucault, Michel, 3, 11, 20, 30, 136

Freud, Sigmund, 29, 31, 66, 138, 156

Frye, Northrop, 102

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 98, 104

Gast, Peter, 142, 151, 159, 161, 162

Giraudoux, Jean, 137

God, 91

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 43, 66, 67, 119

Habermas, Jürgen, 5, 6, 11, 35

Halcyon, the, 163–66. See also Alcyone

Hamlet, 156

Hanswurst. See Clown

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 24, 30–33, 36, 40, 43–45, 50, 74, 88, 90, 110, 137, 149

Hegelian thought, 12–14

Heidegger, Martin, 3, 7, 11, 30, 34, 35, 37, 47, 58, 85, 94–96, 116, 124

Heraclitus, 10

Herakles, 137

Hermeneutics, 98, 127, 149–50

Historical consciousness, 9, 21, 98

Historical philosophy, 24

Hobbes, Thomas, 103, 110

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 73, 116

Hollingdale, R. J., 150, 151

Horkheimer, Max, 6

Hume, David, 5, 91

Husserl, Edmund, 2

Individual, 92

Irony, 29, 48, 102

James, Henry, 35, 71

James, William, 79

Jaspers, Karl, 42

Jencks, Charles, 17

Jesus, 30, 39, 55, 99, 107, 124–39

Joyce, James, 117, 118, 154

Judaism, ch. 5 passim

Kaegi, Werner, 16

Kant, Immanuel, 32, 74, 84, 85, 96, 143

Kaufmann, Walter, 62, 124, 150

Kettle logic (Freud), 31

Klein, Melanie, 64

Klossowski, Pierre, 86

Kojéve, Alexander, 13

Lacan, Jacques, 32, 156–57

Laughter, 103–104, 109–111, 114, 120

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 160

Literary characters, 87–89, 154–56

Locke, John, 64, 96

Logocentrism, 15

Löwith, Karl, 125

Lukacs, Georg, 30, 35

Luther, Martin, 117

Lyotard, Jean-François, 11

Maclntyre, Alasdair, 7

Magnus, Bernd, 84

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 106

Mann, Thomas, 118

Marx, Karl, 11, 110, 140

Melville, Herman, 88

Metamorphosis, 45

Metanarrative, 11, 37

Metaphor, 28, 41, 44–46, 50–60; proportional m., 55–58; Zarathustra’s critique of, 67

Metonyony, 28, 46–47, 60–61

Moment (Augenblick), 75, 90–91, 103, 144, 148, 166

Morgenbesser, Sidney, 120

Myth, 29–30, 164–66

Narratology, critical, 23–29

Nehamas, Alexander: on eternal recurrence, 86–89; on Ecce Homo, 152–61; on literary work as model, 24

Noon, great, 143–44, 166–67

Novalis, 73

Odysseus, 49, 122

Oedipus, 155, 156, 160

Organic unity, 86–89, 152–54

Overbeck, Franz, 15, 134, 161

Ovid, 164

Parmenides, 83

Parody, 116–17, 120, 122–23

Paul, Saint, 128, 130, 132, 138

Pautrat, Bernard, 59

Peirce, Charles, 25, 69, 135–36

Periodization of Nietzsche’s work, 14–15

Philology, 2, ch. 5 passim

Plato, 3, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20, 30, 31, 32, 37, 40, 43, 47, 57, 79, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 100, 118, 123, 134

Platonism, 90

Pliny, 109

Podach, Erich, 162

Poetry and philosophy, 41–42; and truth, 66–67, 106, 112–15

Polybius, 10

Postmodern: narrative, 35; postmodern thought, 10–12; N. as postmodern, 17, 37

Priestly reading, 128–29

Private language, 72–75, 78–82

Proust, Marcel, 88, 89

Pynchon, Thomas, 154

Pythagoreans, 9, 10

Rabinow, Paul, 20

Rauschenberg, Robert, 125

Renan, Ernest, 127, 130, 133–37

Rhetoric, 44–45

Ricoeur, Paul, 128

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 96, 106

Rimbaud, Arthur, 106

Ritschl, Friedrich, 17

Rohde, Erwin, 16

Russell, Bertrand, 2

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 13, 51

Satyr-play, 99

Schiller, Johann Christian Friedrich, 14

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 16, 104

Self, 72, 85–87, 89–96, 103

Semiotics, 131–32, 135–37

Socrates, 16, 20, 32, 39, 66, 79, 100, 109, 117, 118, 123, 137, 160

Solon, 89

Song, 81–82, 93–96, 105, 112–19, 122

Sophocles, 155

Soul, 92–96

Space, 95–96

Speech and writing, 16–20, 39

Spinoza, Benedict, 40

Steiner, George, 156

Strauss, David F., 2, 125, 130, 132, 136

Style, 43, 97

Symbolism, contrasted with narrative, 131

Synecdoche, 29, 47–48

Thucydides, 10

Transvaluation, 144–45, 150–51, 166

Tropology, 45–49, 102–103

Übermensch, 44, 109

Vision (“Of the Vision and the Riddle”), 75–76. See also Dreams and dreaming

Wagner, Richard, 14, 19, 39, 43, 67, 106

Wellhausen, Julius, 2, 128, 129, 132, 136

White, Hayden, 103

Whitehead, Alfred North, 91

Will: and binary oppositions, 46, 64–65; complex, 85

Wisdom, John, 77–78

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 75, 85

Wölfflin, Heinrich, 21

Woman, 119

Writing. See Speech and writing

Yeats, William Butler, 12

Zeno, 135

Zoroaster, 39, 110