Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Notes on Texts Preface to the First Edition One Nihilism as Existence 1. Two Problems 2. Nihilism and the Philosophy of History 3. European Nihilism Two From Realism to Nihilism: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach 1. Hegel's Absolute Idealism and Radical Realism 2. Schopenhauer—Will as Real—The Nullity of Existence 3. Kierkegaard—Becoming and Existence 4. Feuerbach—Critique of Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics Three Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Consummate Nihilist 1. The Significance of Nihilism in Nietzsche 2. Radical Nihilism 3. Nietzsche's Interpretation of Christianity 4. The Concept of "Sincerity"—"Will to Illusion" Four Nietzsche's Affirmative Nihilism: Amor Fati and Eternal Recurrence 1. Value-Interpretation and Perspectivism 2. The Problem of Amor Fati 3. Love of Fate as "Innermost Nature"—Suffering—Soul 4. The Idea of Eternal Recurrence: The "Moment" and Eternity 5. Eternal Recurrence and Overcoming the Spirit of Gravity 6. Love of Fate and Eternal Recurrence 7. The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism Five Nihilism and Existence in Nietzsche 1. "God is Dead" 2. Critique of Religion 3. The Stages of Nihilism 4. Nihilism as Existence 5. The First Stage of Existence 6. The Second Stage of Existence 7. Nihilism as Scientific Conscience 8. Science and History as Existence 9. "Living Dangerously" and "Experimentation" 10. The Third Stage—Existence as Body 11. The Dialectical Development of Nihilism Six Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner 1. Stirner's Context 2. The Meaning of Egoism 3. Realist, Idealist, Egoist—"Creative Nothing" 4. From Paganism to Christianity 5. From Christianity to Liberalism 6. From Liberalism to Egoism 7. Ownness and Property—All and Nothing 8. The State and the Individual Seven Nihilism in Russia 1. Russian Nihilism 2. Bazarov's Nihilism—"Fathers and Sons" 3. Nihilism as Contemplation—"Notes from Underground" Eight Nihilism as Philosophy: Martin Heidegger 1. Existentialism as a Discipline 2. The "Ontological Difference" 3. Transcendence and Being-in-the-World 4. Being-toward-Death and Anxiety 5. Finitude—Metaphysics—Existence—Freedom Nine The Meaning of Nihilism for Japan 1. The Crisis in Europe and Nihilism 2. The Crisis Compounded 3. The Significance of European Nihilism for Us 4. Buddhism and Nihilism Appendix The Problem of Atheism 1. Marxist Humanism 2. Sartrean Existentialism 3. Atheism in the World of Today Notes Index
