Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future

Jeffrey Metzger is Assistant Professor at Cameron University, USA. He has previously taught at Brown University and Kenyon College, USA.

"This collection brings together a group of the most original and independent-thinking Nietzsche scholars, who go beyond their previous work to open a number of surprising new doors onto Nietzsche's nihilism. An exceptionally diverse and original set of perspectives on Nietzsche's thought!" - Professor Henry Staten, University of Washington, USA

• AcknowledgementsNotes and Citations on Nietzsche's WorksIntroduction, Jeffrey Metzger (Cameron University, USA)1. Nietzsche's Double Rhetoric: Which Nihilism?, Stanley Rosen (Boston University, USA)2. Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche Contra Plato on the Role of a Warrior Elite, Michael Allen Gillespie (Duke University, USA)3. Nietzsche: Nihilism and Neo-Gnosticism, Stanley Corngold (Princeton University, USA)4. Nietzsche - Rhetoric - Nihilism: 'every name in history' - 'every style' - 'everything permitted' (A Political Philology of the Last Letter), Geoff Waite (Cornell University, USA)5. 'Does That Sound Strange to You?': Education and Indirection in Essay III of On the Genealogy of Morality, Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University, USA)6. Free Spirits and Free Thinkers: Nietzsche and Guyau on the Future of Morality, Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick, UK)7. How Deep Are the Roots of Nihilism?: Nietzsche on the Creative Power of Nature and Morality, Jeffrey Metzger (University of Toronto, Canada)8. Nietzsche and the Impossiblity of Nihilism, James Porter (University of California, Irvine, USA)9. Nietzsche, Contingency, and the Vacuity of Politics, Robert Guay (Binghamton University, USA)BibliographyNotesIndex