David Farrell Krell examines issues concerning health, illness, and creativity in the life na thought of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Drawing on a wide variety of philosophical reflections on health-from Plato through the German Idealists-Krell engages a broad range of contemporary Nietzsche interpretation-from Heidegger and Derrida to Kofman and Irigaray. Anyone interested in a philosophical reflection on questions of genius and illness, and all readers of Nietzsche, will find Krell's book compelling.

PrefaceIntroductionOne. Critica genealogica I: Inventories of DecadenceRessentiment and DecadenceThe Genealogy of Ground; the Grounds of GenealogyGround as the Cartesian CogitoTranscendental versus Genealogical CritiqueGenealogy as FatalityTwo. Critica genealogica II: The Decadence of InventoriesDeleuze, Foucault, and GenealogyA Nietzschean Inventory?Will to Power as Genealogical Fa(c)tumThe Genealogy of Language; the Language of GenealogyStyles of Excessive Wisdom: Nietzsche as Pierre d'attenteThree. Critica genealogica III: The Decadence of RedemptionRedeeming the World for the First TimeShades of DecadenceRadiant Affirmation versus Paltry ConsolationDescensional ReflectionFour. The Cock: Reading Plato (after Nietzsche)Dialogue and Dialectic: Plato's "Mixed" FormThree Accounts of PhaedoTeaching Plato (after Nietzsche)Five. Der Maulwurf/The Mole: Reading Kant and Hegel (after Nietzsche)Auszuge/ExtractsVorwurf/Prelude and Plaint'Allerlei Maulwurfsgange" bei Kant/'All Kinds of Mole Tunnels" in KantDer Maulwurf in Siebenmeilenstiefeln/The Mole in Seven-League BootsTalpa trophonia/The Trophonic MoleNachwurf/Postlude and ThrenodySix. A Hermeneutics of Discretion: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacoue-LabartheDerrida's SpursLacoue-Labarthe on Heidegger on NietzscheObliterationGlissezSeven. "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall...": Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, DerridaGadamer's Heidegger's NietzscheDerrida's Heidegger's NietzscheNietzsche's Heidegger/Gadamer/DerridaEight. Eternal Recurrence¿of the Same? Reading Notebook M III INine. Two Systems fo the Mouth: An Oral Presentation of Novalis and NietzscheNausea for DessertThe Germ of the Frist KissInterludeNietzsche's BitePostlude IPostlude IITen. Infectious Reading: Health and Illness in Novalis and NietzscheA Poetics of the BanefulThe Biopositive Effects of InfectionFiancees, Physiology, and Infectious RhetoricIncluding the ecceConclusion and PostscriptEleven. Consultations with the Paternal Shadow on the Altar at the Edge of the EarthTwelve. Consultations with the Maternal Shadow in the Orangegrove at the Edge of the SeaNotesIndex