Nietzsche, no longer the marginal figure in philosophy, is examined in relation to Kantian and post-Kantian thought by some of the foremost authorities on the philosopher.

Keith Ansell Pearson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Viroid Life and editor of Deleuze and Philosophy, also published by Routledge.

Introduction, Keith Ansell-Pearson; Chapter 1 Nietzsche, Christianity, and the Legitimacy of Tradition, John Walker; Chapter 2 Kant, Lange, and Nietzsche: Critique of Knowledge, George J. Stack; Chapter 3 Schein in Nietzsche's Philosophy, Robert Rethy; Chapter 4 Hermeneutics and Nietzsche's Early Thought, Nicholas Davey; Chapter 5 Nietzsche, the Self, and Schopenhauer, Christopher Janaway; Chapter 6 Marx and Nietzsche: The Individual in History, Ian Forbes; Chapter 7 Nietzsche and the Problem of the Will in Modernity, Keith Ansell-Pearson; Chapter 8 Autonomy and Solitude, J.M. Bernstein; Chapter 9 Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy, Howard Caygill; Chapter 10 Art As Insurrection: The Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Nick Land; Chapter 11 Reading the Future of Genealogy: Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Michael Newman; Chapter 12 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Metaphysics of Modernity, Robert B. Pippin;