INDEX

Aeschylus, 44

affirmation, 24, 26, 28–30, 44, 56, 67, 79; amor fati, 40

Anaxagoras, 42, 44

Antichrist, The, x, 6, 31, 83

Aphrodite, aphrodisia, 44, 74, 77, 111, 113

Apollo, 28, 33–6, 38, 46, 47, 48, 49

Ariadne, 7, 12–13, 14–31 passim, 48, 50, 55, 60, 64, 69, 73, 74, 79, 81–3, 85–7, 109, 112, 113, 114

Aristophanes, 73

Arnold, Matthew, 33, 43, 46, 110–11

art, artificer, artist, 7, 8, 9, 11, 25, 33–50 passim, 85

asinus, 6, 22, 83, 109

Augenblick, “Glance of an Eye.” See time

Augustine, St., 113

Bachelard, Gaston, 3, 111

Beyond Good and Evil, ix-x, 3, 4, 9, 10, 20, 22, 25, 37, 75, 80, 82, 84, 109–10

Birth of Tragedy, The, ix-x, 12, 13, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27–8, 33–50 passim, 85–6, 110

bisexuality, 8, 11, 15, 23, 34, 36–8, 75. See also sexuality

Blondel, Eric, 113

body, 7, 39, 77, 82, 85, 109, 111

books: big, ix-x; little, ix-x; perfect, 81–2, 87

Calina, 12–13, 72, 79–81, 84, 87

Camus, Albert, 72

castration, 9–11, 39, 76–7, 107; moral castratism, 11, 77, See also Circe; of Dionysos, 36–7

Christianity, 8–9, 11, 16, 25–6, 28, 36, 85, 109–10, 113; “Proscription of,” 25. See also religion

Circe, 9. See also castration

Colli, Giorgio, 75

Corinna, 12–13, 20, 28, 31, 32, 48–50, 60, 69, 86–7, 110, 111, 114

creativity, 3, 19, 75. See also art, styles

Daybreak, x, 5, 107–8, 109–10

death, ix, 3, 26, 50, 53, 85–7, 109; as Thanatos, “dream” and “risk” of death, 9, 47, 55, 66, 67, 80, murder, 42, 43, 44, 49–50, 58, 61, 62, 63, 68, 80, 86–7; of Dionysos, 36–7; of Empedocles, 43–50, 86; of God, 25–6, 59, 72, 78, 110; of Pan, 45, 47, 49; of Zarathustra, 53–69 passim, 71–9, 86–7, 112; penitential, 49–50

Deleuze, Gilles, 27–31, 109, 112

Democritus, 8, 45

Derrida, Jacques, 3–13 passim, 28, 85, 107–8, 113

dialectic, 28–30. See also Hegel

dice, coup de dés, 28, 112

Diogenes Laertius, 41, 48

Dionysos, ix, 15–16, 19–31 passim, 33–50 passim, 56, 64, 71, 72, 74, 81–3, 85–7, 112, 113, 114; bisexuality of, 34–7; philosophos, ix, 20–31, 64, 72; Zagreus, 27, 36, 87

Dionysos Dithyrambs, x, 15, 20, 27, 76, 83, 108; “Among Daughters of the Desert,” 76–7, 113; “Only Fool! Only Poet!” 76; “Plaint of Ariadne,” text of, 16–19, discussion of, 15–31 passim, 82–3, 114; “The Song of Melancholy,” 76

distance: actio in distans, 6–11, 26, 35, 36, 42, 66, 75, 82, 85–6, 113; pathos of, 9, 24, 85

doubling, duplicity, 7–8, 9, 20, 25, 29, 50, 66, 87; Apollo-Dionysos, Dionysos-Ariadne, 28–30, 33–8; of the sexes, 33, 38–9, 75–81, 87; of the voice, 20, 39–40, 73–4, 76

downgoing, Untergang, 22, 50, 53–6, 60, 62, 68, 78–9, 80, 81

drama, ix, 15, 20, 27; Nietzsche’s Empedocles, See Empedocles; Nietzsche’s plans for a Zarathustran drama, 27, 58–69, 71–84; Hölderlin’s Der Tod des Empedokles, See Hölderlin; Arnold’s Empedocles on Etna, See Arnold. See also satyr-play, tragedy

ears, 6, 21, 22, 30, 50, 56, 68, 83, 107. See also labyrinth

Ecce Homo, x, 3, 6, 23–4, 26, 28, 83

Eco, Umberto, 15

Empedocles, 12, 24, 27, 33, 38, 40–50 passim, 53, 58, 59, 61, 66, 68, 72, 83, 86–7, 110–11, 112, 114

eternal recurrence of the same, ix, 3, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28, 37, 43, 44, 50, 53, 55, 56, 59–60, 63–9, 78–9, 80, 86, 110, 111–12

Euripides’ The Bacchae, 24, 36, 37, 113. See also Dionysos

Eve, 28, 30, 38

Faust, 46, 111–12

Freud, Sigmund, 9. See also psychoanalysis

Gasché, Rodolphe, 113

Gay Science, The, x, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 56, 59, 79

genealogy, ix, 9, 20, 28–9, 35–6, 75, 77, 85

Genealogy of Morals, Toward a, x, 9, 77

Gilgamesh, Epic of, v

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 76. See also Faust

Hamlet, 107, 111

Heftrich, Eckhard, 109

Hegel, G. W. F., 4, 36, 80, 107

Heidegger, Martin, 4, 10, 11, 12, 53, 54, 63, 68, 108, 109, 112

Heraclitus, 24, 27, 41, 44, 61

hermeneutics, 3, 4, 5, 11, 31, 107

heroic, the, 7, 9, 12, 29–30, 38, 81–3, 86–7, 111, 113, 114. See also Theseus, tragedy

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 12, 19, 33, 40–1, 43, 46, 48, 110

Human, All-Too-Human x, 3, 76, 111

Irigaray, Luce, 71, 108, 109

Janz, Curt Paul, 48, 50, 110, 112, 113

Joyce, James, v, 3, 53, 72

Kant, Immanuel, 4, 39, 86, 110

Klossowski, Pierre, 114

knowledge, Erkenntnis, 25, 33–7 passim, 47, 61, 110, 112. See also science

Kofman, Sarah, 109

labyrinth, 6–7, 21, 22, 26, 27, 30, 31, 82, 83, 87. See also Minotaur

Lacan, Jacques, 9, 107, 108. See also psychoanalysis

language, 8, 22–3, 26, 40, 41. See also styles, doubling of the voice

laughter, 21, 60, 66, 87

legislation, lordship, 22–3, 63, 65–6, 71–84 passim, 85, 87. See also politics

life, 3, 25, 33, 41, 42, 43, 55–6, 63–4, 84; Nietzsche’s biography, ix-x, 87. See also vita femina

Lou von Salomé, 57, 75, 87, 113

love, 7, 25–6, 37, 39–40, 41–2, 46, 57; and strife, philia and neikos, 42–4. See also sensuality, sexuality

Luther, Martin, 76

McDonald, Christie V., 107, 108

madness, 10, 12, 13, 25, 46, 50, 75

Maenads, 25, 37, 38, 49, 81

Magician, der Zauberer, 15–19, 29, 75, 76, 114

magnificent midday. See “Midday and Eternity”

Magritte, René, 107

martyrdom, 16–19, 25–6, 82. See also Ariadne, Ecce Homo

Medusa, 20, 35, 38, 68–9, 71, 81, 85, 87, 113

“Midday and Eternity,” 58–9, 63–9 passim, 78–80, 87

Miller, C. A., 113

Minotaur, 30, 81–2. See also labyrinth

misogyny, 3–4, 28, 75, 84

mothers, 3, 33; as negative power, 28–31 passim; Nietzsche’s mother, 87; of tragedy, 34–50 passim, 85. See also sisters

Müller-Lauter, Wolfgang, 112

Munch, Edvard, 2, 14, 32, 52, 70

negativity, nihilism, 24, 28–31, 67, 78

nobility, 9, 44, 72

Oedipus, 3, 35, 38–40, 55, 85

orgiastics, 20, 21, 23, 36, 45, 110; “the orgiastic soul of woman,” 73–6, 85, 87

orientalism, 36–8, 74, 109–10. See also Dionysos

Otto, Walter F., 109

Overbeck, Franz, 87

overman, Übermensch, ix, 6, 22, 30, 53, 54, 59–60, 63, 65, 66, 71, 86, 112–13. See also Zarathustra

Pan. See death

Pana, 12–13, 27, 31, 55, 62–9 passim, 86–7, 112

Pantheia: historical figure, 44, 46, 48, 111–12; in Hölderlin’s Empedokles, 110; Nietzsche’s Pan-a, 64

Parmenides, 43, 111

Paul, St., 113

Pautrat, Bernard, 107, 109, 113

Pentheus. See Euripides’ The Bacchae

philosophy, ix-x; and dogmatism, 10–11; and satyr-play, 22–3, 81–3; Dionysian, 20–2, 27; end of, 11, 39, 82; Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, 41, 86, 111, 114; of the future, 20, 44–5, 81–3; of the tragic philosopher, 24, 38, 39, 44, 85

Pindar, 41, 48

pity, 29, 43, 50, 62, 64, 82; as plague, 45, 47, 59, 86; fear and, 23, 47–9

plague, 12, 38–9, 43–50 passim, 59–61, 64, 65, 66, 67, 71, 78, 80, 86

Plato, 8, 38, 41, 73, 86; Timaeus, 10, 34, 108, 113

Plutarch, 45

politics, 41–3, 48. See also legislation, lordship

postponements, ix-x, 4, 5, 11–13, 21, 23, 26, 27, 37, 39, 41, 43, 53, 54, 56, 59, 66, 79, 84, 85–7

presence, metaphysics of, 5, 11, 34, 37, 39, 108

propriation, proximation, 4, 9, 10, 108

psychoanalysis, 9–10, 107–8

Pythagoras, 8, 42, 43, 45, 112

rapture, Rausch, 23. See also Dionysos

Rée, Paul, 113

Reinhardt, Karl, 12, 15–31 passim, 53, 72, 83, 85, 108, 109, 112, 113

religion, 21, 42, 46, 63, 112; and piety, 63, 80; and sexuality, 110. See also Christianity

ressentiment, Rache, 9, 28–30, 40. See also negativity, nihilism

revaluation, Umwertung aller Werte, ix, 9, 23, 79, 84, 87. See also legislation, lordship

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 113

Said, Edward, 36, 38, 109–10

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 107

satyr-play, 22–3, 27, 81–2, 85, 87, 114. See also drama, philosophy

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 3, 34, 86

science, 33–4, 37–8, 41–50 passim, 81, 112, 114. See also knowledge

Semele, 19

sensuality, ix, 3, 10–12, 25, 37, 56–7, 61, 74–5, 77, 85–7, 113

sexuality: and sensuality, 37, 74–5; and the symbolic, 20, 42, 110; and tragedy, 33, 36, 41–2; sexual difference, 4, 30, 33, 39, 110. See also bisexuality

Silenus, 35

Sils-Maria, 75

sisters, 3, 28–31 passim. See also mothers

Socrates, 38, 41; the Socratic supplement, 37, 45–6. See also art

Sophocles, 40

sphinx, 39, 76–7, 87

spider, araignée, 28–9, 109

styles, ix, 3, 5, 11, 21, 22, 24, 25, 34, 112. See also language

Tertullian, 113

Theseus, 29, 30, 48–50, 56, 81–7 passim, 113. See also the heroic

Thomas, R. Hinton, 113

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, x, 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 53–69 passim, 74–7, 81, 84, 112

time, 8, 41–2, 86; and eternity, 56, 67, 86; Augenblick, “Glance of an Eye,” 54–5, 56, 67–8, 86

tragedy, ix, 15, 19, 20, 22–3, 29, 53, 81, 82, 87; Greek, 33–50 passim, Zarathustra’s tragic destiny, 22, 64–9. See also downgoing

transition, Übergang, 23, 53, 64

truth, 3–5, 10–11, 63, 82, 84, 85

Twilight of the Idols, x, 20, 77, 83, 109

Untimely Meditations, x, 8, 107, 111

vita femina, 10, 26, 56. See also life

Wagner, Richard and Cosima, 83, 87

Whitman, Walt, v

will to power, ix, 9, 72

woman, 10; as nature, 7, 35, 45–50 passim, 80, 86, 112; as plague, see plague; das Weibansich, 4–11 passim, 24, 85, 107; the hand of, 10, 71, 74–5, 85, 87; in childbirth, 19–20, 23, 29, 80; in the Greek polis, 38–9; the orgiastic soul of, see orgiastics; the voice of, 20, 40, 60, 74

Yeats, William Butler, 25, 35

Zarathustra, 22, 53–69, 80, 86–7; and Empedocles, 112; and the Higher Men, 30, 56, 58–69 passim, 72, 76–80 passim; Zarathustra’s animals, 55, 61–2, 63, 67; Zarathustra’s demise, See death, downgoing; “Zarathustra’s Songs,” 83–4; “Zarathustra’s Temptation,” 43, 47, 58–9, 63, 83; the Zarathustra-type, 24, 26, 59, 65. See also Thus Spoke Zarathustra