Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom

Keith Ansell-Pearson is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author and editor of several books on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy and The Nietzsche Reader.

• List of Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s WorksIntroductionPhilosophically HeterodoxSystem and AphorismNaturalismsWisdom as a Hiding PlaceItineraryChapter One. Books and CheerfulnessHonest BooksCold Books and CheerfulnessNietzsche and MontaigneMelancholy Authors and Cheerful Wisdom“Cricket-Cheerfulness”Cheerfulness and HopeChapter Two. Honesty and the Passion of KnowledgeKnow Thyself?The Youngest VirtueThe Passion of KnowledgeChapter Three. The Philosopher as a WandererNietzsche and PhilosophyThe Wisdom of the SagesThe Wanderer: Justice and LoveThe Wanderer’s ShadowIn Praise of SolitudeA Third Eye and Perceiving CosmicallyChapter Four. The PassionsNietzsche and the PassionsOn the Greeks and ChristianityOn StoicismThe Passions and Self-CultivationVirtue and the PassionsChapter Five. The PoetsThe Poet as SeerSuspicions about the PoetsOn Shakespeare and CorneilleBeautiful Human Beings: Nietzsche and Adalbert StifterNew DawnsChapter Six. Only a Fool, Only a Poet: The Passion of ZarathustraThe Passion of ZarathustraZarathustra in Relation to Nietzsche’s Middle WritingsA Book for All and NoneNietzsche and HeraclitusPower: An Open SecretZarathustra the PoetZarathustra the FoolThe MaskNietzsche and the SuperhumanNietzsche and Dostoevsky“Between Gilded Ice and Pure Blue Sky”Chapter Seven. The Philosopher’s VisionIntroductionThe Problem with “Objectivity”: Sainte-Beuve and the ScholarThe Novel and “Objectivity”: FlaubertHashish and Satanism: Baudelaire and WagnerismThe Observations of the PsychologistThe Philosopher as LegislatorSpiritual CaesarismCoda: Umana commediaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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