Nietzsche Within Your Grasp Book

	Acknowledgments	vii
1	Nietzsche's Life	1
	Early Education	1
	Influences and College Years	2
	Schopenhauer's Will	3
	A Visit to a Brothel Has Consequences	4
	More Bad Luck	4
	Friendship with Wagner	5
	Professor Nietzsche	5
	A Medical Orderly in the Franco-Prussian War	6
	His First Books	6
	The Wander Years	6
	Unrequited Love	7
	Descent into Madness	7
	The Nazi Sister	8
2	Nietzsche's Philosophy	11
	Nietzsche's Works	11
	Influenced By	11
	His Writing Style	12
	Nietzsche's Key Works	13
	The Controversy of Later Works	15
	Nietzsche's Themes	16
	The Quest for Truth	16
	God Is Dead	17
	Live Here, on Earth	18
	A Life Well Lived	18
	Life Again and Again	19
	The Will to Power	20
	Superman!	20
	Good versus Bad	20
	The Herd versus the Individual	21
	Master and Slave	21
	Nietzsche's Impact Far and Wide	22
	Reading Nietzsche	22
3	The Birth of Tragedy	25
	What Nietzsche Argues in The Birth of Tragedy	25
	Setting the Stage	26
	From Suffering to Art	28
	Socrates and the Death of Tragedy	29
	From Socrates to Science	30
	Music and the Recanted Rebirth	31
	Influence of Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Others	32
	What Nietzsche Says in His Criticism of The Birth of Tragedy	32
	His Questions	33
	The Effect of His Mentors	33
	His Criticism of Christianity	34
	His Life View	34
4	The Gay Science	37
	The Gay Science Defined	37
	What Is Gay Science?	38
	Structure	38
	The Importance of The Gay Science	39
	The Myths of Knowledge	39
	Why Knowledge?	39
	Question the "Truth"	40
	Whose Truth?	40
	Knowledge of What?	41
	Where Is God?	41
	Whose Morality?	42
	What Purpose Life?	44
	Love This Life	44
	Be an Individual	45
	Laugh!	45
	What Else?	46
5	Thus Spoke Zarathustra	49
	An Introduction to Thus Spoke Zarathustra	49
	Who Is Zarathustra?	49
	How Thus Spoke Zarathustra Is Organized	50
	Key Themes in Thus Spoke Zarathustra	50
	It's Superman!	51
	Heading toward the "Last Man"	51
	Striving toward Superman	52
	Finding Meaning	53
	Your Will	53
	Your Virtues	54
	Your Own Way	55
	Life Again and Again	56
6	Beyond Good and Evil	59
	About Good and Evil	59
	Cultivating a New Philosopher	60
	The State of Current Philosophers	60
	The Ideal New Philosopher	61
	The Natural History of Morals	62
	Christianity and Morality	62
	Herd Morality	63
	Master and Slave	64
	Will to Power	65
	Nietzsche's Noble Man	65
	Skeptics and Others	66
	Greatness of Soul	66
	Lesser Topics and Style Notes	67
7	Ecce Homo	69
	About Ecce Homo	69
	About the Title and Style	70
	Nietzsche Lives His Ideals	70
	Nietzsche on Nietzsche	71
	Why Nietzsche Is So Wise	71
	Why Nietzsche Is So Clever	72
	Why Nietzsche Writes Such Good Books	73
	Why Nietzsche Is a Destiny	75
	Further Reading	77
	Nietzsche's Main Works	77
	Collections, Biographies, and Critical Works	78
	Nietzsche Web Sites	78
	General Philosophy	78
	Index	81