The Invention of Dionysus breaks new ground in our appreciation of Nietzsche...Porter's minute and innovative reading...is both challenging and stimuling, requiring us to return to a work too often glossed over." --Thomas L. Cooksey, Armongstrong Atlantic State University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The problem of periodization: Nietzsche's appearances; 2. Abyssal metaphysical surfaces: F. A. Lange; 3. The appearance of metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy and beyond; 4. The complication of appearances; 5. Anticipations: the physiology of dreams; 5. 'Delicate boundaries'; 6. 'On Schopenhauer'; 7. Transfiguration; 8. Beyond metaphysics - to its banality; 9. Narrative appearances; 10. 'Raving Socrates'; 11. The Platonism of The Birth of Tragedy; 12. 'The goal of the Antipodes'; 13. The Socratic fallacy; 14. 'Eternal' phenomena: culture's illusions.
