This title was first published in 2002: Nietzsche described himself as a godless anti-metaphysician. These writings encourage the student to question any reading that fails to address Nietzsche's sense of irony with respect to his own philosophical claims.

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Reading Nietzsche 1. On the Value of the Individual 2. The Genealogy of Sovereignty: St. Paul, Kant, Schopenhauer 3. The Individual and the Birth of Tragedy 4. Against Idealism 5. Zarathustra and the Teaching of Sovereignty 6. The Return of the Master 7. Ecce Homo, or the Revaluation of Values 8. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of the Future Afterword Notes Index