Nietzsche and Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze

Preface to the English Translation

Translator's Notes

Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Works

The Tragic

The Concept of Genealogy

Sense

The Philosophy of the Will

Against the Dialectic

The Problem of Tragedy

Nietzsche's Evolution

Dionysus and Christ

The Essence of the Tragic

The Problem of Existence

Existence and Innocence

The Dicethrow

Consequences for the Eternal Return

Nietzsche's Symbolism

Nietzsche and Mallarme

Tragic Thought

The Touchstone

Active and Reactive

The Body

The Distinction of Forces

Quantity and Quality

Nietzsche and Science

First Aspect of the Eternal Return: as cosmological and physical doctrine

What is the Will to Power

Nietzsche's Terminology

Origin and Inverted Image

The Problem of the Measure of Forces

Hierarchy

Will to Power and Feeling of Power

The Becoming-Reactive of Forces

Ambivalence of Sense and of Values

Second Aspect of the Eternal Return: as ethical and selective thought

The Problem of the Eternal Return

Critique

Transformation of the Sciences of Man

The Form of the Question in Nietzsche

Nietzsche's Method

Against his Predecessors

Against Pessimism and against Shopenhauer

Principles for the Philosophy of the Will

Plan of The Genealogy of Morals

Nietzsche and Kant from the Point of View of Principles

Realisation of Critique

Nietzsche and Kant from the Point of View of Consequences

The Concept of Truth

Knowledge, Morality and Religion

Thought and Life

Art

New Image of Thought

From Ressentiment to the Bad Conscience

Reaction and Ressentiment

Principle and Ressentiment

Typology and Ressentiment

Characteristics of Ressentiment

Is he Good? Is he Evil?

The Paralogism

Development of Ressentiment: the Judaic priest

Bad Conscience and Interiority

The Problem of Pain

Development of Bad Conscience: The Christian priest

Culture Considered from the Prehistoric Point of View

Culture Considered from the Post-Historic Point of View

Culture Considered from the Historical Point of View

Bad Conscience, Responsibility, Guilt

The Ascetic Ideal and the Essence of Religion

Triumph of Reactive Forces

The Overman: Against the Dialectic

Nihilism

Analysis of Pity

God is Dead

Against Hegelianism

The Avatars of the Dialectic

Nietzsche and the Dialectic

Theory of the Higher Man

Is Man Essentially "Reactive"?

Nihilism and Transmutation: the focal point

Affirmation and Negation

The Sense of Affirmation

The Double Affirmation: Ariadne

Dionysus and Zarathustra

Conclusion

Notes

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

Series

• Columbia Classics in Philosophy

About the Author

Gilles Deleuze was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes St. Denis. He is the author of Difference and Repitition, Empiricism and Subjectivity, Logic of Sense, Negotiations 1972-1990, and Why Philosophy? (with Felix Guattari)-- all published in the European Perspectives series.

Hugh Tomlinson, the translator, studied at the University of Paris, attending Deleuze's seminars.

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