Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Babette E. Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and is the editor of Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory and the author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life, also published by SUNY Press.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIllustrations PHILOSOPHY, PHILOLOGY, POETRY 1. Philosophy and the Poetic Eros of Thought 2. Philology and Aphoristic Style: Rhetoric, Sources, and Writing in Blood 3. The Birth of Tragedy: Lyric Poetry and the Music of Words 4. Nietzsche’s "Gay Science": Poetry and Love, Science and Music 5. Pindar’s Becoming: Translating the Imperatives of Praise MUSIC, PAIN, EROS 6. Philosophy as Music 7. Songs of the Sun: Hölderlin in Venice 8. On Pain and Tragic Joy: Nietzsche and Hölderlin 9. Nietzsche’s Erotic Artist as Actor/Jew/Woman ART, NATURE, CALCULATION 10. Chaos and Culture 11. The Ethos of Nature and Art: Hölderlin’s Ecological Politics 12. The Work of Art and the Museum: Heidegger, Schapiro, Gadamer 13. The Ethical Alpha and Heidegger’s Linguistic Omega: On the Inner Affinity Between Germany and Greece 14. Heidegger’s Beiträge as Will to Power NotesBibliographyName IndexSubject Index