Contents

Introduction to the Paperback Edition

Editor's Preface

Plan of the English Edition

Author's Foreword to All Volumes

THE WILL TO POWER AS ART

1. Nietzsche as Metaphysical Thinker

2. The Book, The Will to Power

3. Plans and Preliminary Drafts of the "Main Structure"

4. The Unity of Will to Power, Eternal Recurrence, and Revaluation

5. The Structure of the "Major Work." Nietzsche's Manner of Thinking as Reversal

6. The Being of beings as Will in Traditional Metaphysics

7. Will as Will to Power

8. Will as Affect, Passion, and Feeling

9. The Idealistic Interpretation of Nietzsche's Doctrine of Will

10. Will and Power. The Essence of Power

11. The Grounding Question and the Guiding Question of Philosophy

12. Five Statements on Art

13. Six Basic Developments in the History of Aesthetics

14. Rapture as Aesthetic State

15. Kant's Doctrine of the Beautiful. Its Misinterpretation by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

16. Rapture as Form-engendering Force

17. The Grand Style

18. Grounding the Five Statements on Art

19. The Raging Discordance between Truth and Art

20. Truth in Platonism and Positivism. Nietzsche's Attempt to Overturn Platonism on the Basis of the Fundamental Experience of Nihilism

21. The Scope and Context of Plato's Meditation on the Relationship of Art and Truth

22. Plato's Republic: The Distance of Art (Mimesis) from Truth (Idea)

23. Plato's Phaedrus: Beauty and Truth in Felicitous Discordance

24. Nietzsche's Overturning of Platonism

25. The New Interpretation of Sensuousness and the Raging Discordance between Art and Truth

Appendix: A manuscript page from the lecture course Nietzsche: Der Wille zur Macht als Kunst [Nietzsche: The Will to Power as Art], Winter Semester 1936-37

Analysis by David Farrell Krell

Glossary

Martin Heidegger - Nietzsche I. The Will to Power as Art

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