Joan Stambaugh , Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of City University of New York, is the author of The Finitude of Being and The Real is Not The Rational, both published by SUNY Press.

• Prefatory Notes Acknowledgments 1. Nietzsche Today 2. Creativity and Decadence 3. Life Without Music 4. Thoughts on Pity and Revenge 5. Thoughts on a Nachlass Fragment 6. Amor dei and Amor fati: Spinoza and Nietzsche 7. The Innocence of Becoming 8. Appearance: Nihilism or Affirmation 9. The Other Nietzsche Notes Index

"Nietzsche is more important today than ever. Widely read, and co-opted into almost every conceivable philosophical fad and fashion, he is urgently in need of the rescue this fine volume provides. The book is a rich feast of new insights into Nietzsche's texts, and into the philosophical questions they pose."Stambaugh is an internationally-recognized authority on Nietzsche. She knows the texts backwards and forwards—and is keyed in to all the distortions inherent in the 'scholarly industry' surrounding this important philosopher. In these essays—which are not merely interpretive or textual, but are themselves profound philosophical meditations by the author—one encounters the 'real' Nietzsche." — George R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities

Joan Stambaugh , Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of City University of New York, is the author of The Finitude of Being and The Real is Not The Rational, both published by SUNY Press.

• Prefatory Notes Acknowledgments 1. Nietzsche Today 2. Creativity and Decadence 3. Life Without Music 4. Thoughts on Pity and Revenge 5. Thoughts on a Nachlass Fragment 6. Amor dei and Amor fati: Spinoza and Nietzsche 7. The Innocence of Becoming 8. Appearance: Nihilism or Affirmation 9. The Other Nietzsche Notes Index

"Nietzsche is more important today than ever. Widely read, and co-opted into almost every conceivable philosophical fad and fashion, he is urgently in need of the rescue this fine volume provides. The book is a rich feast of new insights into Nietzsche's texts, and into the philosophical questions they pose."Stambaugh is an internationally-recognized authority on Nietzsche. She knows the texts backwards and forwards—and is keyed in to all the distortions inherent in the 'scholarly industry' surrounding this important philosopher. In these essays—which are not merely interpretive or textual, but are themselves profound philosophical meditations by the author—one encounters the 'real' Nietzsche." — George R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities

Joan Stambaugh , Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of City University of New York, is the author of The Finitude of Being and The Real is Not The Rational, both published by SUNY Press.

• Prefatory Notes Acknowledgments 1. Nietzsche Today 2. Creativity and Decadence 3. Life Without Music 4. Thoughts on Pity and Revenge 5. Thoughts on a Nachlass Fragment 6. Amor dei and Amor fati: Spinoza and Nietzsche 7. The Innocence of Becoming 8. Appearance: Nihilism or Affirmation 9. The Other Nietzsche Notes Index

"Nietzsche is more important today than ever. Widely read, and co-opted into almost every conceivable philosophical fad and fashion, he is urgently in need of the rescue this fine volume provides. The book is a rich feast of new insights into Nietzsche's texts, and into the philosophical questions they pose."Stambaugh is an internationally-recognized authority on Nietzsche. She knows the texts backwards and forwards—and is keyed in to all the distortions inherent in the 'scholarly industry' surrounding this important philosopher. In these essays—which are not merely interpretive or textual, but are themselves profound philosophical meditations by the author—one encounters the 'real' Nietzsche." — George R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities