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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Primary Sources -- Introduction -- Part I Nietzsche's Intellectual Context and Early Reception of Pessimism -- Chapter 1 The Varieties of Pessimism -- 1.1 Four Pessimistic Theses -- 1.2 The Defence: Arguments for Pessimism -- 1.3 The Explanation: Pessimism in Human History and Culture -- Chapter 2 Nietzsche's Initial Engagement with Pessimism -- 2.1 Another 'Apostle' of Schopenhauer? -- 2.2 Pessimism in The Birth of Tragedy 
505 8 |a 2.3 'Practical Pessimism': Suicide, Mercy Killing, and the Problem of Quietism -- 2.4 Art as an Antidote to Practical Pessimism -- 2.5 The Problem of Suffering's Meaning -- Part II The Beginnings of Change: Pessimism in Human, All Too Human -- Chapter 3 Nietzsche's New Naturalism -- 3.1 Beyond Optimism and Pessimism -- 3.2 Nietzsche's Initial Critique of Metaphysics -- 3.3 The Nature of Value Judgements: The Influence of Rée and Dühring -- 3.4 Frame of Reference Arguments against Pessimism -- Chapter 4 ''Bad News for Priests'': Scientific Progress and Suffering 
505 8 |a 4.1 The Origins of Metaphysics in Utility -- 4.2 On the Possibility of Science as the 'Axe' to the Root of Metaphysical Impulse -- 4.3 Nietzsche and the Social Question: Religion and Art Reconsidered -- Part III Nietzsche's Mature Rejection of the 'Pessimism of Sensibility' -- Chapter 5 A Psychological Critique -- 5.1 Pessimism as Weltschmerz: Nineteenth-Century Critiques -- 5.2 Nietzsche's Psychological Critique (I): Drives, Health, and Decadence -- 5.3 Nietzsche's Psychological Critique (II): Metaphysical Revenge -- 5.4 Christianity as the Pinnacle Manifestation of Pessimism 
505 8 |a 5.5 The Scope of Nietzsche's Psychological Critique and Its Strategic Implications -- Chapter 6 An Existential Critique -- 6.1 Pessimism and Nihilism -- 6.2 Eternal Recurrence as Response to the Pessimism Dispute -- 6.3 The (Re)Vindication of Art -- Chapter 7 A Perfectionist Critique -- 7.1 Pessimism and Hedonism -- 7.2 Greatness and the Poverty of Hedonism -- 7.3 The Philosophical Force of Nietzsche's Critique -- 7.4 A 'Pessimism of Strength': The Value of Suffering -- 7.5 Hedonism as Cause or Consequence?: Rescuing Schopenhauer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index 
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