KEITH ANSELL PEARSON Director of Graduate Research, Department of Philosophy, University of WarwickGARY BANHAM Member of Hertford College, OxfordDANIEL W. CONWAY Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Pennsylvania State UniversityBRIAN DOMINO Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan UniversityKATHLEEN MARIE HIGGINS Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, AustinLAURENCE LAMPERT Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, IndianapolisDAVID OWEN Lecturer in Politics and Assistant Director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy, University of SouthamptonGRAHAM PARKES Professor of Philosophy, University of HawaiiJIM URPETH Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Greenwich

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Lippitt PART I: NOBLES AND EXEMPLARS Nietzsche, Enlightenment and the Problem of Noble Ethics; D.Owen Annunciation and Rebirth: The Prefaces of 1886; D.W.L.Conway Stendhal's Ecstatic Embrace of History as the Antidote for Decadence; B.Domino PART II: LAUGHTER AND COMEDY Nietzsche's Best Jokes; L.Lampert Waves of Uncountable Laughter; K.M.L.Higgins Laughter: a Tool in Moral Perfectionism?; J.Lippitt PART III: ART, NATURE AND THE TRANSHUMAN A 'Pessimism of Strength': Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime; J.Urpeth Creating the Future: Legislation and Aesthetics; G.Banham Staying Loyal to the Earth: Nietzsche as an Ecological Thinker; G.Parkes Loving the Poison: on the 'Meaning' of the Transhuman Condition; K.Ansell Pearson Index