Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism)

A landmark discussion between two great thinkers--the second (combining volumes III and IV) of two volumes inquiring into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 VOLUME III: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Editor's Preface......Page 9 Part One: The Will to Power as Knowledge......Page 13 1. Nietzsche as the Thinker of the Consummation of Metaphysics......Page 15 2. Nietzsche's So-called Major Work......Page 22 3. The Will to Power as Principle of a New Valuation......Page 27 4. Knowledge in Nietzsche's Fundamental Thought Concerning the Essence of Truth......Page 34 5. The Essence of Truth (Correctness) as "Estimation of Value"......Page 44 6. Nietzsche's Alleged Biologism......Page 51 7. Western Metaphysics as "Logic"......Page 60 8. Truth and What Is True......Page 65 9. Tracing the Opposition of the "True and Apparent Worlds" Back to Relations of Value......Page 69 10. World and Life as "Becoming"......Page 76 11. Knowing as Schematizing a Chaos in Accordance with Practical Need......Page 80 12. The Concept of "Chaos"......Page 89 13. Practical Need as the Need for a Schema; Formation of a Horizon and Perspective......Page 96 14. Accordance and Calculation......Page 102 15. The Poetizing Essence of Reason......Page 106 16. Nietzsche's "Biological" Interpretation of Knowledge......Page 113 17. The Law of Contradiction as a Law of Being: Aristotle......Page 123 18. The Law of Contradiction as Command: Nietzsche......Page 127 19. Truth and the Distinction Between the "True and Apparent Worlds"......Page 135 20. The Uttermost Transformation of Metaphysically Conceived Truth......Page 143 21. Truth as Justice......Page 149 22. The Essence of Will to Power; Permanentizing Becoming into Presence......Page 162 Part Two: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same and the Will to Power......Page 171 Part Three: Nietzsche's Metaphysics......Page 197 1. Introduction......Page 199 2. The Will to Power......Page 205 3. Nihilism......Page 213 4. The Eternal Return of the Same......Page 221 5. The Overman......Page 228 6. Justice......Page 247 Analysis & Glossary......Page 265 Analysis by David Farrell Krell......Page 267 Glossary......Page 289 VOLUME IV: Nihilism......Page 301 Contents......Page 303 Editor's Preface......Page 305 Part One: European Nihilism......Page 307 1. The Five Major Rubrics of Nietzsche's Thought......Page 309 2. Nihilism as the "Devaluation of the Uppermost Values"......Page 319 3. Nihilism, Nihil, and Nothing......Page 324 4. Nietzsche's Conception of Cosmology and Psychology......Page 330 5. The Provenance of Nihilism and Nihilism's Three Forms......Page 336 6. The Uppermost Values as Categories......Page 342 7. Nihilism and the Man of Western History......Page 349 8. The New Valuation......Page 353 9. Nihilism as History......Page 358 10. Valuation and Will to Power......Page 364 11. Subjectivity in Nietzsche's Interpretation of History......Page 375 12. Nietzsche's "Moral" Interpretation of Metaphysics......Page 382 13. Metaphysics and Anthropomorphism......Page 391 14. The Statement of Protagoras......Page 397 15. The Dominance of the Subject in the Modern Age......Page 402 16. The Cartesian Cogito as Cogito Me Cogitate......Page 408 17. Descartes' Cogito Sum......Page 417 18. The Fundamental Metaphysical Positions of Descartes and Protagoras......Page 425 19. Nietzsche's Position vis-a-vis Descartes......Page 429 20. The Inner Connection Between the Fundamental Positions of Descartes and Nietzsche......Page 442 21. The Essential Determination of Man, and the Essence of Truth......Page 445 22. The End of Metaphysics......Page 453 23. Relations with beings and the Relationship to Being. The Ontological Difference......Page 456 24. Being as A Priori......Page 465 25. Being as Idea, as Agathon, and as Condition......Page 473 26. The Interpretation of Being as Idea, and Valuative Thought......Page 479 27. The Projection of Being as Will to Power......Page 484 28. The Differentiation Between Being and beings, and the Nature of Man......Page 489 29. Being as the Void and as Abundance......Page 494 Part Two: Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being......Page 503 Analysis & Glossary......Page 557 Analysis by David Farrell Krell......Page 559 Glossary......Page 601 v. 1. The will to power as art. The eternal recurrence of the same / translated from the German by David Farrell Krell v. 2. The will to power as knowledge and as metaphysics / translated from the German by Joan Stambaugh, David Farrell Krell, Frank A. Capuzzi ; edited, with notes and an analysis, by David Farrell Krell. Nihilism / translated from the German by Frank A. Capuzzi ; edited, with notes and an analysis, by David Farell Krell. Who Nietzsche is and above all who he will be we shall know as soon as we are able to think the thought that he gave shape to in the phrase "the will to power."