How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold

Nietzsche's reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler's shadow. It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, began to comb through the archives that anyone warmed to the idea of rehabilitating Nietzsche as a major European philosopher.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsThe Spoilsports: Introduction1. Beyond the Gothic Line: Lucca 1943-44The Chosen FewStandard Positions of Nietzsche ReceptionSeduction of YouthThe Blue LightMagic of LettersThe School of Higher Ignorance2. Painstaking Care and Class Warfare: Pisa 1948On the Joy of Being a CommunistComrade JobLe goût de l'archiveEveryone Else's NietzscheAcademics in the War of PositionTravels in GermanyDrinking, Smoking, Reading3. Operation Nietzsche: Florence 1958Off the Beaten TrackBeauty and HorrorThe Other LibraryCrossing over the AbyssDangerous PapersThe Italian Job4. Over the Wall and into the Desert: Weimar 1961No Suspicious TracesThe Air in WeimarThe Craft of ReadingNietzsche Is a DiseaseThe Knight of the Woeful FigureThe Politics of FactsDown with the Philosophers!5. Waiting for Foucault: Cerisy-la-Salle 1972Alone Against the Nietzsche MafiaAgainst InterpretationWatching TV in ReinhardsbrunnThe Ostracized ThinkerNietzsche's Dirty SecretDeath of an AuthorQuote Unquote6. Burn After Reading: Berlin 1985Anarchy of AtomsThe Red Brigades of Textual CriticismNietzsche in PaperbackThe Great ConspiracyPhilology Degree ZeroThe Ring of BeingNotesBibliographyIndex