The Invention of Dionysus

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.

James I. Porter is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of "Constructions of the Classical Body" and the author of "Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future" (Stanford, 1999).