| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Critica genealogica I: Inventories of Decadence | p. 1 |
| Ressentiment and Decadence | p. 2 |
| The Genealogy of Ground; the Grounds of Genealogy | p. 5 |
| Ground as the Cartesian Cogito | p. 7 |
| Transcendental versus Genealogical Critique | p. 11 |
| Genealogy as Fatality | p. 18 |
| Critica genealogica II: The Decadence of Inventories | p. 25 |
| Deleuze, Foucault, and Genealogy | p. 25 |
| A Nietzschean Inventory? | p. 31 |
| Will to Power as Genealogical Fa(c)tum | p. 33 |
| The Genealogy of Language; the Language of Genealogy | p. 42 |
| Styles of Excessive Wisdom: Nietzsche as Pierre d'attente | p. 51 |
| Critica genealogica III: The Decadence of Redemption | p. 56 |
| Redeeming the World for the First Time | p. 56 |
| Shades of Decadence | p. 65 |
| Radiant Affirmation versus Paltry Consolation | p. 72 |
| Descensional Reflection | p. 77 |
| The Cock: Reading Plato (after Nietzsche) | p. 83 |
| Dialogue and Dialectic: Plato's "Mixed" Form | p. 86 |
| Three Accounts of Phaedo | p. 94 |
| Teaching Plato (after Nietzsche) | p. 99 |
| Der Mauheurf/The Mole: Reading Kant and Hegel (after Nietzsche) | p. 103 |
| Auszuge/Extracts | p. 103 |
| Vorwurf/Prelude and Plaint | p. 105 |
| "Allerlei Maulwurfsgange" bei Kant/"All Kinds of Mole Tunnels" in Kant | p. 105 |
| Der Maulwurf in Siebenmeilenstiefeln/The Mole in Seven-League Boots | p. 107 |
| Talpa trophonia/The Trophonic Mole | p. 113 |
| Nachwurf/Postlude and Threnody | p. 120 |
| A Hermeneutics of Discretion: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe | p. 125 |
| Derrida's Spurs | p. 125 |
| Lacoue-Labarthe on Heidegger on Nietzsche | p. 132 |
| Obliteration | p. 138 |
| Glissez | p. 145 |
| "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall ...": Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida | p. 147 |
| Gadamer's Heidegger's Nietzsche | p. 149 |
| Derrida's Heidegger's Nietzsche | p. 152 |
| Nietzsche's Heidegger/Gadamer/Derrida | p. 156 |
| Eternal Recurrence - of the Same? Reading Notebook M III 1 | p. 158 |
| Two Systems of the Mouth: An Oral Presentation of Novalis and Nietzsche | p. 177 |
| Nausea for Dessert | p. 178 |
| The Germ of the First Kiss | p. 180 |
| Interlude | p. 187 |
| Nietzsche's Bite | p. 188 |
| Postlude I | p. 194 |
| Postlude II | p. 195 |
| Infectious Reading: Health and Illness in Novalis and Nietzsche | p. 197 |
| A Poetics of the Baneful | p. 198 |
| The Biopositive Effects of Infection | p. 201 |
| Fiancees, Physiology, and Infectious Rhetoric | p. 204 |
| Including the ecce | p. 208 |
| Conclusion and Postscript | p. 211 |
| Consultations with the Paternal Shadow on the Altar at the Edge of the Earth | p. 213 |
| Consultations with the Maternal Shadow in the Orangegrove at the Edge of the Sea | p. 234 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 275 |
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