A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship.
* Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche.
* Showcases the latest trends in Nietzsche scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche's philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.
* Includes clearly organized sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life.
* Features fresh treatments of Nietzsche's core and enigmatic doctrines.

Notes on Contributors x
A Note on References to Nietzsche's Works xv
A Note on Translated Essays xviii
A Note on Cross-References xix
Chronology of Nietzsche's Life and Work xx
1 Friedrich Nietzsche: An Introduction to his Thought, Life, andWork 1
Keith Ansell Pearson
2 Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism 22
Jill Marsden
Part I ART, NATURE, AND INDIVIDUATION 39
3 The Aesthetic Justification of Existence 41
Daniel Came
4 Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in Nature58
Elaine P. Miller
5 The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche 76
Nuno Nabais
Part II NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE 95
6 Nietzsche's "Gay" Science 97
Babette E. Babich
7 Nietzsche and Philosophical Anthropology 115
Richard Schacht
8 Nietzsche's Philosophy and True Religion 133
Laurence Lampert
9 The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil 148
Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick
Part III ETERNAL RECURRENCE, THE OVERHUMAN, AND NIHILISM169
10 Identity and Eternal Recurrence 171
Paul S. Loeb
11 Nietzsche and Cosmology 189
Robin Small
12 Nietzsche on Time and Becoming 208
John Richardson
13 The Incorporation of Truth: Towards the Overhuman 230
Keith Ansell Pearson
14 Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche 250
Andreas Urs Sommer
Part IV PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 271
15 The Body, the Self, and the Ego 273
Volker Gerhardt
16 Phenomenology and Science in Nietzsche 297
Peter Poellner
17 Naturalism and Nietzsche's Moral Psychology 314
Christa Davis Acampora
Part V PHILOSOPHY AND GENEALOGY 335
18 Naturalism and Genealogy 337
Christopher Janaway
19 The Philosophical Function of Genealogy 353
Robert Guay
20 Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals371
Robert B. Pippin
Part VI ETHICS 387
21 Nietzsche and Ethics 389
Paul J. M. van Tongeren
22 Rebaptizing our Evil: On the Revaluation of All Values404
Kathleen Marie Higgins
23 Nietzsche's Fatalism 419
Robert C. Solomon
Part VII POLITICS 435
24 Nietzsche contra Liberalism on Freedom 437
Herman Siemens
25 Nietzsche and National Identity 455
Diane Morgan
Part VIII AESTHETICS 475
26 Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics 477
Gary Shapiro
27 Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Ontology of Music 495
Christoph Cox
Part IX EVOLUTION AND LIFE: THE WILL TO POWER 515
28 Nietzsche and Evolutionary Theory 517
Gregory Moore
29 Life and Self-Overcoming 532
Daniel W. Conway
30 Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to Power 548
James I. Porter
31 A Critique of the Will to Power 565
Henry Staten
Index 583