Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future

Jeffrey Metzger is an Instructor at Cameron University, USA. He has previously taught at Brown University and Kenyon College, USA.

• Introduction, Jeffrey Metzger (University of Toronto, Canada); 1. Nihilism and Monism: On Nietzsche's Pluralistic 'Universe', Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick, UK); 2. Reactivating Nietzsche?, Alenka Zupancic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts); 3. Nietzsche, Contingency, and the Vacuity of Politics, Robert Guay (Binghamton University, USA); 4. Nietzsche and the Impossiblity of Nihilism: The Genealogy of an Idea, James Porter (University of Michigan, USA); 5. Ni dieu, ni maitre and Nietzsche's Reading of the Democractic Ethos of Modern Nihilism, Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA); 6. Nietzsche's Philosophic Legislation: Rescuing the True and the Noble, Laurence Lampert and George Dunn (Purdue University, USA); 7. Nietzsche: Neo-Gnosticism and Nihilism, Stanley Corngold (Princeton University, USA); 8. Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche's Struggle Against Plato for the Heart of the Warrior, Michael Allen Gillespie (Duke University, USA); 9. Nobility and Ressentiment in On the Genealogy of Morals, Jeffrey Metzger (University of Toronto, Canada); 10. The criminal of criminals is the philosopher': Nietzsche and the Prado-Jack the Ripper-Oscar Wilde-Van Gogh-Gaugin Complex, Geoff Waite (Cornell University, USA); 11. What Wisdom Wants: Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism, Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University, USA); Bibliography; Notes; Index.

"This collection brings together a group of the most original and independent-thinking Nietzsche scholars, who go beyond their previous work to open a number of surprising new doors onto Nietzsche's nihilism. An exceptionally diverse and original set of perspectives on Nietzsche's thought!" - Professor Henry Staten, University of Washington, USA