Explores health, illness, and creativity in the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on a varied literature of philosophical reflections on health, and analyzing Nietzsche's confrontation with traditional values, this title deals with the legacy of Platonism and Western metaphysics that is at the core of Nietzsche's thought.

Preface Introduction One. Critica genealogica I: Inventories of Decadence Ressentiment and Decadence The Genealogy of Ground; the Grounds of Genealogy Ground as the Cartesian Cogito Transcendental versus Genealogical Critique Genealogy as Fatality Two. Critica genealogica II: The Decadence of Inventories Deleuze, Foucault, and Genealogy A Nietzschean Inventory? Will to Power as Genealogical Fa(c)tum The Genealogy of Language; the Language of Genealogy Styles of Excessive Wisdom: Nietzsche as Pierre d'attente Three. Critica genealogica III: The Decadence of Redemption Redeeming the World for the First Time Shades of Decadence Radiant Affirmation versus Paltry Consolation Descensional Reflection Four. The Cock: Reading Plato (after Nietzsche) Dialogue and Dialectic: Plato's "Mixed" Form Three Accounts of Phaedo Teaching Plato (after Nietzsche) Five. Der Maulwurf/The Mole: Reading Kant and Hegel (after Nietzsche) Auszuge/Extracts Vorwurf/Prelude and Plaint 'Allerlei Maulwurfsgange" bei Kant/'All Kinds of Mole Tunnels" in Kant Der Maulwurf in Siebenmeilenstiefeln/The Mole in Seven-League Boots Talpa trophonia/The Trophonic Mole Nachwurf/Postlude and Threnody Six. A Hermeneutics of Discretion: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe Derrida's Spurs Lacoue-Labarthe on Heidegger on Nietzsche Obliteration Glissez Seven. "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall...": Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida Gadamer's Heidegger's Nietzsche Derrida's Heidegger's Nietzsche Nietzsche's Heidegger/Gadamer/Derrida Eight. Eternal Recurrence-of the Same? Reading Notebook M III I Nine. Two Systems fo the Mouth: An Oral Presentation of Novalis and Nietzsche Nausea for Dessert The Germ of the Frist Kiss Interlude Nietzsche's Bite Postlude I Postlude II Ten. Infectious Reading: Health and Illness in Novalis and Nietzsche A Poetics of the Baneful The Biopositive Effects of Infection Fiancees, Physiology, and Infectious Rhetoric Including the ecce Conclusion and Postscript Eleven. Consultations with the Paternal Shadow on the Altar at the Edge of the Earth Twelve. Consultations with the Maternal Shadow in the Orangegrove at the Edge of the Sea Notes Index