Kristen Brown is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College.

"I applaud the author's successful attempts to connect philosophy to the quotidian. From her account of her fasting friend, Doug, to the more extensive discussions of curry and (pre)menses, Brown connects abstract philosophy to life—which to my mind is exactly what Nietzsche is trying to do." — Brian Domino, Miami University"This work is not only important for its nuanced interpretations of Heraclitus, Nietzsche, and Merleau-Ponty, but also for its insights into the problem of how interpretation arises. It will be read for both its exegesis and its original insights." — James J. Winchester, author of Nietzsche's Aesthetic Turn: Reading Nietzsche after Heidegger, Deleuze, Derrida

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Introduction 2. Opening Nietzsche's Genealogy to"Feminine" Body: A Story of the Concepts of Dynamic Non-dualism and Relation 3. Nietzsche's Ascetic Ideals and a Process of the Production of Embodied Meaning 4. Nietzsche's Ascetic Ideals as a Process of the Production of Meaning 5. Nietzsche on a Practice and Concept of Guilt 6. Nietzsche, Metaphor, and Body 7. Nietzsche after Nietzsche: Trauma, Language, and the Writings of Merleau-Ponty 8. Nietzsche before Nietzsche: Heraclitu's Speech Opening Nietzsche's and Ours to Preliterate Perceptual Structures NotesReferencesIndex