Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism

Brian Pines teaches courses in the Philosophy of Religion at Monterey Peninsula College in California, USA.Douglas Burnham is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the University Graduate School at Staffordshire University, UK. He has written extensively on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: A Reader's Guide (2010) and The Nietzsche Dictionary (2014), both published by Bloomsbury.

Perhaps no other intellectual figure has exerted such a powerful influence on philosophical, literary, and cultural modernism as Friedrich Nietzsche. This volume, edited by Brian Pines and Douglas Burnham, showcases essays that illuminate well the character of this influence and in all its audacious and dazzling glory.

• Series PrefaceNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Heroism of Friedrich Nietzsche Brian Pines (Independent Researcher, USA)Part 1 Conceptualizing Nietzsche1. Nonhuman Transcendence: Art and Non-Anthropocentrism in The Birth of TragedyPatricia Valderrama (Independent Researcher, USA)2. Nietzsche’s Dawn of Morality: Daybreak and the Modernist ImpulseSiobhan Lyons (Macquarie University, Australia)3. Ticklish Truths: Poetry, Chance, and Laughter in The Gay ScienceScott J Cowan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)4. "What do you matter?": Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Individualism and ModernismDouglas Burnham (Staffordshire University, UK)5. Der Antichrist: A Book for Barbarians, Slaves, and Cave DwellersBrian Pines (Independent Researcher, USA)6. The Twilight of the Idols and the Dawn of ModernityKarl Laderoute (University of Lethbridge, Canada)Part 2 Nietzsche and Modernist Culture7. Peacocks and Buffalos: Nietzsche and the Problems of Modern SpectacleYunus Tuncel (The New School, USA)8. Not another Image of Torment: Nietzsche Eternal Recurrence and Theatricality Jeremy Killian (Coastal Carolina University, USA)9. The Birth of Dada, Out of the Spirit of NihilismKaitlyn Creasy (Butler University, USA)10. Nietzsche’s Decadent ModernismAdrian Switzer (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)11. Nietzsche’s Relation with Psychoanalysis: from Freud to Surrealist Modernism, Bataille, and Lacan Tim Themi (University of Melbourne, Australia)12. Nietzsche, Jung and Modern MilitancyRitske Rensma (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)13. Streams of Becoming: Nietzsche, Physiology and Literary ModernismJill Marsden (University of Bolton, UK)14. Death shall have no Dominion: Dylan Thomas, Friedrich Nietzsche and Tragic JoyJames Luchte (Independent Researcher, UK)15. The Crisis of Philosophy in Modernity: From Perspectivism to EssayismSebastian Hüsch (Aix-Marseille Université, France)16. Mann >Modernism< NietzscheBill Mcdonald (University of Redlands, USA)Part 3 Glossary17. Dionysiac Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University, UK)18. Decadence Jack Brookes (Independent Researcher, USA)19. From Zoroaster to Zarathustra Matthew John Grabowski (Independent Researcher, USA)20. Figuration and Imagery Gill Zimmerman (Zeppelin University, Germany)21. Danger Scott J Cowan (University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and Brian Pines (Independent Researcher, USA)22. The Eternal Recurrence Karl Laderoute (University of Lethbridge, Canada)23. The Will to Power Karl Laderoute (University of Lethbridge, Canada)24. The Revaluation of all Values Brian Pines (Independent Researcher, USA)Index