The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism

<p>Acknowledgments</p><p> Abbreviations</p><p> Introduction</p><p> Notes on Texts</p><p> Preface to the First Edition</p><p> One<br/> Nihilism as Existence</p><p> 1. Two Problems</p><p> 2. Nihilism and the Philosophy of History</p><p> 3. European Nihilism</p><p> Two<br/> From Realism to Nihilism: Hegel Schopenhauer Kierkegaard Feuerbach</p><p> 1. Hegel's Absolute Idealism and Radical Realism</p><p> 2. Schopenhauer-Will as Real-The Nullity of Existence</p><p> 3. Kierkegaard-Becoming and Existence</p><p> 4. Feuerbach-Critique of Religion Philosophy and Ethics</p><p> Three<br/> Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Consummate Nihilist</p><p> 1. The Significance of Nihilism in Nietzsche</p><p> 2. Radical Nihilism</p><p> 3. Nietzsche's Interpretation of Christianity</p><p> 4. The Concept of Sincerity-Will to Illusion</p><p> Four<br/> Nietzsche's Affirmative Nihilism: <i>Amor Fati</i> and Eternal Recurrence</p><p> 1. Value-Interpretation and Perspectivism</p><p> 2. The Problem of <i>Amor Fati</i></p><p> 3. Love of Fate as Innermost Nature-Suffering-Soul</p><p> 4. The Idea of Eternal Recurrence: The Moment and Eternity</p><p> 5. Eternal Recurrence and Overcoming the Spirit of Gravity</p><p> 6. Love of Fate and Eternal Recurrence</p><p> 7. The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism</p><p> Five<br/> Nihilism and Existence in Nietzsche</p><p> 1. God is Dead</p><p> 2. Critique of Religion</p><p> 3. The Stages of Nihilism</p><p> 4. Nihilism as Existence</p><p> 5. The First Stage of Existence</p><p> 6. The Second Stage of Existence</p><p> 7. Nihilism as Scientific Conscience</p><p> 8. Science and History as Existence</p><p> 9. Living Dangerously and Experimentation</p><p> 10. The Third Stage-Existence as Body</p><p> 11. The Dialectical Development of Nihilism</p><p> Six<br/> Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner</p><p> 1. Stirner's Context</p><p> 2. The Meaning of Egoism</p><p> 3. Realist Idealist Egoist-Creative Nothing</p><p> 4. From Paganism to Christianity</p><p> 5. From Christianity to Liberalism</p><p> 6. From Liberalism to Egoism</p><p> 7. Ownness and Property-All and Nothing</p><p> 8. The State and the Individual</p><p> Seven<br/> Nihilism in Russia</p><p> 1. Russian Nihilism</p><p> 2. Bazarov's Nihilism-Fathers and Sons</p><p> 3. Nihilism as Contemplation-Notes from Underground</p><p> Eight<br/> Nihilism as Philosophy: Martin Heidegger</p><p> 1. Existentialism as a Discipline</p><p> 2. The Ontological Difference</p><p> 3. Transcendence and Being-in-the-World</p><p> 4. Being-toward-Death and Anxiety</p><p> 5. Finitude-Metaphysics-Existence-Freedom</p><p> Nine<br/> The Meaning of Nihilism for Japan</p><p> 1. The Crisis in Europe and Nihilism</p><p> 2. The Crisis Compounded</p><p> 3. The Significance of European Nihilism for Us</p><p> 4. Buddhism and Nihilism</p><p> Appendix The Problem of Atheism</p><p> 1. Marxist Humanism</p><p> 2. Sartrean Existentialism</p><p> 3. Atheism in the World of Today</p><p> Notes</p><p> Index</p>