Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals

Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her numerous publications include A Nietzschean Bestiary , co-edited with Ralph R. Acampora published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. She is Executive Editor of The Journal of Nietzsche Studies.

• Part 1 Introduction: In the Beginning: Reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals from the StartPart 2 Part I: On GenealogyChapter 3 1. A "Dionysian drama on the 'fate of the soul'": An Introduction to Reading On the Genealogy of Morality Chapter 4 2. Nietzsche, Re-evaluation and the Turn to GenealogyChapter 5 3. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 6 4. Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of GenealogyChapter 7 5. Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of ValuesChapter 8 6. Genealogy, the Will to Power, and the Problem of a PastPart 9 Part II: Reading the Genealogy : Focused analyses of parts and passagesChapter 10 7. Slave morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Reading of the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 11 8. Lightning and Flash, Agent and DeedChapter 12 9. On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy II:2Chapter 13 10. Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Chapter 14 11. The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the PolemicChapter 15 12. We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves: The key message of Nietzsche's GenealogyChapter 16 13. Nihilism as Will to NothingnessPart 17 Part III: Critiquing Genealogy Chapter 18 14. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-reading the Dialectic of EnlightenmentChapter 19 15. Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and The Genealogy of Morals Chapter 20 16. Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and StatePart 21 Part IV: On Politics and CommunityChapter 22 17. Nietzsche's Genealogy: Of Beauty and CommunityChapter 23 18. Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of AmbivalenceChapter 24 19. Nietzschean Viture EthicsChapter 25 How We Become What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"

This volume is an excellent collection of essays. It offers the right mix of perspectives, topics, and settings that will help any reader of theGeneology, students and scholars alike, in navigating one of Nietzsche's most important and challenging texts. Highly recommended.