Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: The Problem of the Philosophy of Science and Nietzsche's Question of Ground The Plan of the Text
Chapter 1 Nietzsche's Musical Stylistics: Writing a Philosophy of Science
The Hermeneutic Challenge of Nietzsche's Elitism: Style and Interpretive Affinity Philosophic Concinnity: The Spirit of Music and Nietzschean Style The Project of Communication: Self-Deconstruction and Nietzschean Selectivity Nietzsche's Style: A Mechanical Model
Chapter 2 Science as Interpretation: The Light of Philology
The Question of a Nietzsche-Styled Philosophy of Science Towards a Nietzschean Critique of Science Nietzsche's Perspectivalism: The Spectre ofRelativism and the Spirit of DifferenceTruth, Pragmatism, and Relativism: Realism a nd theReal The Meaning of Critique: Nietzschean Possibilitiesfor Philosophy Nietzsche and Science: The Question of Validity
Chapter 3 On the Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge: Nietzsche's Epistemology
The Question of Nietzsche's Epistemology: Critique and Ground The Knower and the Known The Problem of Knowledge in its Ecophysiological Ground The Empirical Basis of Transcendent Knowledge Perspectivalism as Epistemology Multiplicity as Interpretational Truth: The Metaphysical Fiction of an Absolute A Note on the Typology of Science and Philosophy: The will to Power Beyond Truth and Lie
Chapter 4 Under the Optics of Art and Life: Nietzsche and Science
Resumé: The Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge Science and Nihilism Reality and Truth: The Domination of Truth Science: Reality and Illusion The Meaning of Nature and Chaos: A Note on Nietzsche's "
Chaos sive natura"
Reality and Illusion: The Interpretive Dynamic
Chapter 5 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Science: Morality and the Values of Modernity
The Genealogy of Morals and the Value of Science The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation Ressentiment : Science and Culture Without Price: The Will to Truth as the Will toLife Science and Inadequacy Duplicity: Science and the Ascetic Ideal The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation Science as an Aesthetic Achievement: Méconnaissance Vesuvius:
"Gefährdete Menschen, fruchtbarer Menschen"
Chapter 6 Toward a Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth
A Perspectivalist Philosophy of Science A Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth Truth as Illusion The Illusion of Truth and the Question of the Eternal Feminine sContra-Morality—Again The Aesthetics of Illusion Creation and Affirmation
Chapter 7 A Dionysian Philosophy: Art in the Light of Life
The Eternal Return of the Same: Interpretation and Will
Ressentiment and Amor Fati
The Perspectival Dominance of Decadence Dionysian Aesthetic Pessimism The Troping of the Eternal Return:
An Aposematic Aposiopesis
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index