Christa Davis Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.

“An outstanding work of Nietzsche scholarship.”

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Citations of Nietzsche’s WorksIntroduction1 Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote 1.1 Valuing Animals1.2 “Homer’s Wettkampf ” and the Good of the Second Eris1.3 What Is an Agon? A Typology of Nietzsche’s Contests1.4 Lessons from Pindar: The Economy of Agonistic Values and the Circulation of Power1.5 The End of the Game: Hybris and Violence1.6 Agon Model as Diagnostic1.7 Wrestling with the Past: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Critique and Use of History1.8 Introducing Nietzsche’s Agonists2 Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value 2.1 Homer’s Contest as Exemplary Revaluation2.2 The Apollinian (and the Dionysian): The Agon Begins2.3 Deadly Modifi cations and the End of Agon2.4 The Agon: Pessimism, Conservatism, and Racism2.5 The Logic of the Contest2.6 The “Ultimate Agony”: Agonistic Antipodes3 Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche’s (Artful) Naturalism 3.1 Toward a “Superior Naturalism”3.2 The Relation between Value and Inquiry3.3 Toward the “Music-Practicing Socrates”3.4 Semblance and Science3.5 Artful Naturalism3.6 Nietzsche’s Problem of Development and His Heraclitean Solution3.7 The Subject Naturalized: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Model of the Soul4 Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism 4.1 On the Possibility of Overcoming Morality4.2 Fighting to the Death: The Agonies of Pauline Christianity4.3 Confl icting Values and Worldviews4.4 Sittlichkeit, Moral, and the Nature of Nietzsche’s Postmoralism4.5 The (Moral) Subject Naturalized4.6 “Das Thun ist Alles”5 Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is 5.1 Becoming What One Is5.2 The Promise and Problem of Wagner5.3 Nietzsche’s Inheritance5.4 Orders of Rank, Types, and Ruling Thoughts5.5 Nietzsche as a Lover: Selfishness versus Selflessness5.6 The Feeling of Power5.7 Nietzsche’s Responsibility5.8 Fighting Writing: Nietzsche’s Kriegs-Praxis5.9 How One Becomes What One IsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Christa Davis Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.

“An outstanding work of Nietzsche scholarship.”

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Citations of Nietzsche’s WorksIntroduction1 Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote 1.1 Valuing Animals1.2 “Homer’s Wettkampf ” and the Good of the Second Eris1.3 What Is an Agon? A Typology of Nietzsche’s Contests1.4 Lessons from Pindar: The Economy of Agonistic Values and the Circulation of Power1.5 The End of the Game: Hybris and Violence1.6 Agon Model as Diagnostic1.7 Wrestling with the Past: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Critique and Use of History1.8 Introducing Nietzsche’s Agonists2 Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value 2.1 Homer’s Contest as Exemplary Revaluation2.2 The Apollinian (and the Dionysian): The Agon Begins2.3 Deadly Modifi cations and the End of Agon2.4 The Agon: Pessimism, Conservatism, and Racism2.5 The Logic of the Contest2.6 The “Ultimate Agony”: Agonistic Antipodes3 Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche’s (Artful) Naturalism 3.1 Toward a “Superior Naturalism”3.2 The Relation between Value and Inquiry3.3 Toward the “Music-Practicing Socrates”3.4 Semblance and Science3.5 Artful Naturalism3.6 Nietzsche’s Problem of Development and His Heraclitean Solution3.7 The Subject Naturalized: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Model of the Soul4 Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism 4.1 On the Possibility of Overcoming Morality4.2 Fighting to the Death: The Agonies of Pauline Christianity4.3 Confl icting Values and Worldviews4.4 Sittlichkeit, Moral, and the Nature of Nietzsche’s Postmoralism4.5 The (Moral) Subject Naturalized4.6 “Das Thun ist Alles”5 Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is 5.1 Becoming What One Is5.2 The Promise and Problem of Wagner5.3 Nietzsche’s Inheritance5.4 Orders of Rank, Types, and Ruling Thoughts5.5 Nietzsche as a Lover: Selfishness versus Selflessness5.6 The Feeling of Power5.7 Nietzsche’s Responsibility5.8 Fighting Writing: Nietzsche’s Kriegs-Praxis5.9 How One Becomes What One IsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Christa Davis Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.

“An outstanding work of Nietzsche scholarship.”

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Citations of Nietzsche’s WorksIntroduction1 Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote 1.1 Valuing Animals1.2 “Homer’s Wettkampf ” and the Good of the Second Eris1.3 What Is an Agon? A Typology of Nietzsche’s Contests1.4 Lessons from Pindar: The Economy of Agonistic Values and the Circulation of Power1.5 The End of the Game: Hybris and Violence1.6 Agon Model as Diagnostic1.7 Wrestling with the Past: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Critique and Use of History1.8 Introducing Nietzsche’s Agonists2 Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value 2.1 Homer’s Contest as Exemplary Revaluation2.2 The Apollinian (and the Dionysian): The Agon Begins2.3 Deadly Modifi cations and the End of Agon2.4 The Agon: Pessimism, Conservatism, and Racism2.5 The Logic of the Contest2.6 The “Ultimate Agony”: Agonistic Antipodes3 Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche’s (Artful) Naturalism 3.1 Toward a “Superior Naturalism”3.2 The Relation between Value and Inquiry3.3 Toward the “Music-Practicing Socrates”3.4 Semblance and Science3.5 Artful Naturalism3.6 Nietzsche’s Problem of Development and His Heraclitean Solution3.7 The Subject Naturalized: Nietzsche’s Agonistic Model of the Soul4 Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism 4.1 On the Possibility of Overcoming Morality4.2 Fighting to the Death: The Agonies of Pauline Christianity4.3 Confl icting Values and Worldviews4.4 Sittlichkeit, Moral, and the Nature of Nietzsche’s Postmoralism4.5 The (Moral) Subject Naturalized4.6 “Das Thun ist Alles”5 Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is 5.1 Becoming What One Is5.2 The Promise and Problem of Wagner5.3 Nietzsche’s Inheritance5.4 Orders of Rank, Types, and Ruling Thoughts5.5 Nietzsche as a Lover: Selfishness versus Selflessness5.6 The Feeling of Power5.7 Nietzsche’s Responsibility5.8 Fighting Writing: Nietzsche’s Kriegs-Praxis5.9 How One Becomes What One IsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex