Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future

Jeffrey Metzger is an Instructor 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

• Introduction, Jeffrey Metzger (University of Toronto, Canada); 1. Nihilism and Monism: On Nietzsche's Pluralistic 'Universe', Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick, UK); 2. Reactivating Nietzsche?, Alenka Zupancic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts); 3. Nietzsche, Contingency, and the Vacuity of Politics, Robert Guay (Binghamton University, USA); 4. Nietzsche and the Impossiblity of Nihilism: The Genealogy of an Idea, James Porter (University of Michigan, USA); 5. Ni dieu, ni maitre and Nietzsche's Reading of the Democractic Ethos of Modern Nihilism, Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA); 6. Nietzsche's Philosophic Legislation: Rescuing the True and the Noble, Laurence Lampert and George Dunn (Purdue University, USA); 7. Nietzsche: Neo-Gnosticism and Nihilism, Stanley Corngold (Princeton University, USA); 8. Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche's Struggle Against Plato for the Heart of the Warrior, Michael Allen Gillespie (Duke University, USA); 9. Nobility and Ressentiment in On the Genealogy of Morals, Jeffrey Metzger (University of Toronto, Canada); 10. The criminal of criminals is the philosopher': Nietzsche and the Prado-Jack the Ripper-Oscar Wilde-Van Gogh-Gaugin Complex, Geoff Waite (Cornell University, USA); 11. What Wisdom Wants: Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism, Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University, USA); Bibliography; Notes; Index.