Herman Siemens is Associate Professor of Modern Philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands.James Pearson has recently completed his PhD at Leiden University on Nietzsche’s philosophy of conflict.

• Table of ContentsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and references for Nietzsche and KantTranslations of Nietzsche’s and Kant’s writingsIntroduction, Herman Siemens and James PearsonPart I. Nietzsche’s ontology of conflict1. Nietzsche on Productive Resistance, Herman Siemens (Leiden University, The Netherlands)2. Unity in Strife: Nietzsche, Heraclitus and Schopenhauer’, James Pearson (Leiden University, The Netherlands)Part II. Conflict and Culture: Nietzsche’s Agon and the Greeks 3. ‘Competition and Democracy in Burckhardt and Nietzsche’, Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford, UK)4. ‘Competitive Ethos and Cultural Dynamic. The principle of Agonism in Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche’, Enrico Müller (University of Bonn, Germany)5. ‘Amor Agonis: Conflict and Love in Nietzsche and Homer’, Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University, USA)6. ‘Agonistic Communities: Love, War, and Spheres of Activity’, Christa Acampora (Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA)Part III: Ethos and Conflict: Nietzsche’s Warriors and Warrior-philosophers 7. ‘Nietzsche on the Pleasure of the Agon and Enticements to War’, Michael McNeal (Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA)8. ‘“Aidos”, The Warrior-Pathos of Nietzsche’s Noble Philosopher’, Florian Häubli (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)9. ‘You Will the Eternal Recurrence of War and Peace’ (GS 285), Isabelle Wienand (University of Basel, Switzerland)10. ‘Philosophy as Terrorism. The Notion of “Attentat”’, Guillaume Métayer (École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France)Part IV: Conflict and Contestation in Language, Rhetoric and Style11. Agon and Language in Nietzsche’s Early Writings on Rhetoric’, Nicolas Lema Habash (University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, USA)12. Hyperbole and Conflict in the Slave Revolt in Morality, Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University, the Netherlands)13. ‘Why War Imagery? Loving Life as an “Experiment der Erkennende” in Die fröhliche Wissenschaft’, Jonathan Agins (Northwestern University, USA)14. The Aphorism as the Site of Conflict in Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Hohl, Alexandra Sattler (Leiden University, the Netherlands)BibliographyIndex

This is a most welcome volume with excellent articles on what is not only one of the most important topics of Nietzsche’s philosophy, but moreover a decisive characteristic of his art of writing and the prevalent structural principle of his philosophical practice in all its domains and in the whole of its development.