Philosophie

Nietzsche and Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Translated by Hugh Tomlinson Foreword by Michael Hardt

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Contents
Foreword i x Preface to the English Translarion xv Translator's Note xxi Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Works xxii
ONE. THE TRAGIC
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Publishers Since 1893 NewYorkChichester,West Sussex Foreword by Michael Hardt and index copyright Q 2006 Columbia University Press Preface and this translation QThe Athlone Press, 1983 Originally published in France in 1962 as Niemche er la philosophie by Presses Universitaires de France The publishers acknowledge the financial assistance of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in the translation of this work. All rightsreserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deleuze, Gilles. FJietzsche er la philosophie. English] Nietzsche and philosophy I Gilles Deleuze ;translated by Hugh Tomlinson ; foreword by Michael Hardt. p. cm. - (European perspectives) Includes index. Translation of: Nietzsche et la philosophie. I S B N 978-0-231-13876-5 (cloth) - I S B N 978-0-231-13877-2
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The Concept of Genealogy I Sense 3 3. The Philosophy of the Will 6 4. Against the Dialectic 8 5. The Problem of Tragedy 10 6. Nietzsche's Evolution 12 7. Dionysus and Christ 14 8. The Essence of the Tragic 17 g. TheProblem of Existence 19 10. Existence and Innocence 22 11. The Dicethrow 25 12. Consequences for the Eternal Return 27 13. Nietzsche's Symbolism 29 14. Nietzsche and MallarmC 32 15. Tragic Thought 34 16. The Touchstone 36
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The Body 39 The Distinction of Forces 40 3. Quantity and Quality 42 4. Nietzsche and Science 44 5. First Aspect of the EternalReturn: as cosmological and physical doctrine 47

6. What is the Will to Power? 49 7. Nietzsche's Terminology 5z 8. Origin and Inverted Image 55 9. The Problems of the Measure of Forces 58 10. Hierarchy 59 11. Will to Power and Feeling of Power 61 12. The Becoming-Reactive of Forces 64 13. Ambivalence of Sense and ofvalues 65 14. Second Aspect of the Eternal Return: as ethical and selectivethought 68 IS. The Problem of the Eternal Return 71
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129 Development of Bad Conscience: the Christian priest 131 I I . Culture Considered from the Prehistoric Point of View 133 12. Culture Considered from the Post-Historic Point ofview 135 13. Culture Considered from the Historical Point ofview 138 14. Bad Conscience, Responsibility, Guilt 141 IS. The Ascetic Ideal and theEssence of Religion 143 16. Triumph of Reactive Forces 145
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9. The Problem of Pain

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Transformation of the Sciences of Man 73 The Form of the Question in Nietzsche 75 3. Nietzsche's Method 78 4. Against his Predecessors 79 5. Against Pessimism and against Schopenhauer 82 6. Principles for the Philosophy of the Will84 7. Plan of The Geneaology of Morals 87 8. Nietzsche and Kant from the Point ofview of Principles 89 9. Realisation of Critique 91 10. Nietzsche and Kant from the Point ofview of Consequences 93 I r. The Concept of Truth 94 12. Knowledge, Morality and Religion 97 13. Thought and Life IOO 14. Art 102 15. New Image of Thought 103
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Nihilism 147 Analysis of Pity 148 3. God is Dead 152 4....