Nietzsche and Greek Thought: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, cartea 24

I. Nietzsche’s Philosophic Historiography.- Nietzsche’s Use of Intellectual History.- History and the Self -Definition of Humanity.- II. Nietzsche on the Greek Decline.- “Socrates” as a Symptom of the Greek Decline.- III. Nietzsche on the Early Presocratics.- Philosophy in “the Tragic Age”.- Nietzsche on Anaximander.- Nietzsche on Herakleitos.- Nietzsche and Parmenides.- IV. Positivism and Ecstasy.- Rationality without Beauty, Release without Proportion.- Poetry as Dianoia, Imagination as Rationality.- V. Keeping Track of “Socrates”.- The Socrates of the Pythagorizing and Oligarchal Tradition.- Nietzsche’s Traditionalist Reading of Plato.- VI. What Nietzsche Loved About Socrates.- Nietzsche’s Dialectic and Anti-Systematics.- Plato’s Socrates is Not a Twilit Idol.- VII. The Tyranny of “Reason”.- “Rationalism” and “Morality,” Reason and Nature.- Man’s Fatedness is Existential.- Nietzsche’s Remarks on Aristotle, and the Tragic Sense.- Epilogue.