Infectious Nietzsche [Paperback]

Infectious Nietzsche is simply one of the most interesting and engaging works to appear on Nietzsche's philosophy in years.
David Allison

Krell explores health, illness, and creativity in the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on a varied literature of philosophical reflections on health, and analyzing Nietzsche's confrontation with traditional values, Krell skillfully engages the legacy of Platonism and Western metaphysics that is at the core of Nietzsche's thought. Nietzsche's genealogical critique, his doctrine of eternal recurrence of the same, and the Nietzschean physiology and psychology of decadence are principal foci. Anyone interested in a philosophical reflection on questions of genius and pathology, and all readers of Nietzsche, will find Krell's new book compelling reading.

How reading Nietzsche, the genealogist, colors our understanding of philosophers from the Greeks and the Romantics through contemporary postmodern thought.

DAVID FARRELL KRELL is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy, Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge, and Postponements: Women, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche.

Preface

Introduction

One. Critica genealogica I: Inventories of Decadence
Ressentiment and Decadence
The Genealogy of Ground; the Grounds of Genealogy
Ground as the Cartesian Cogito
Transcendental versus Genealogical Critique
Genealogy as Fatality

Two. Critica genealogica II: The Decadence of Inventories
Deleuze, Foucault, and Genealogy
A Nietzschean Inventory?
Will to Power as Genealogical Fa(c)tum
The Genealogy of Language; the Language of Genealogy
Styles of Excessive Wisdom: Nietzsche as Pierre d'attente

Three. Critica genealogica III: The Decadence of Redemption
Redeeming the World for the First Time
Shades of Decadence
Radiant Affirmation versus Paltry Consolaló!