Matthew Meyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients (2014) and a co-editor of Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy (Cambridge, forthcoming).

'This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington

• Introduction; 1. Interpreting Nietzsche's free spirit works; 2. A defense of the dialectical reading; Part I. The Ascetic Camel: 3. For the love of truth: Human, All Too Human; 4. An Epicurean in exile: Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and His Shadow; Part II. The Dragon-Slaying Lion: 5. Undermining the prejudices of morality: Daybreak; 6. The Selbstaufhebung of the will to truth: The Gay Science I–III; Part III. The Dionysian Child: 7. Incipit Tragoedia: from The Gay Science IV to Thus Spoke Zarathustra; 8. Incipit Parodia: from the free spirit to the philosophy of the future?

Matthew Meyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients (2014) and a co-editor of Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy (Cambridge, forthcoming).

'This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington

• Introduction; 1. Interpreting Nietzsche's free spirit works; 2. A defense of the dialectical reading; Part I. The Ascetic Camel: 3. For the love of truth: Human, All Too Human; 4. An Epicurean in exile: Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and His Shadow; Part II. The Dragon-Slaying Lion: 5. Undermining the prejudices of morality: Daybreak; 6. The Selbstaufhebung of the will to truth: The Gay Science I–III; Part III. The Dionysian Child: 7. Incipit Tragoedia: from The Gay Science IV to Thus Spoke Zarathustra; 8. Incipit Parodia: from the free spirit to the philosophy of the future?

Matthew Meyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients (2014) and a co-editor of Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy (Cambridge, forthcoming).

'This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington

• Introduction; 1. Interpreting Nietzsche's free spirit works; 2. A defense of the dialectical reading; Part I. The Ascetic Camel: 3. For the love of truth: Human, All Too Human; 4. An Epicurean in exile: Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and His Shadow; Part II. The Dragon-Slaying Lion: 5. Undermining the prejudices of morality: Daybreak; 6. The Selbstaufhebung of the will to truth: The Gay Science I–III; Part III. The Dionysian Child: 7. Incipit Tragoedia: from The Gay Science IV to Thus Spoke Zarathustra; 8. Incipit Parodia: from the free spirit to the philosophy of the future?