Introduction

Part I. The World

1. The Most Multifarious Art of Style

2. Untruth as a Condition of Life

3. A Thing Is the Sum of Its Effects

4. Nature against Something That Is Also Nature

Part II. The Self

5. This Life--Your Eternal Life

6. How One Becomes What One Is

7. Beyond Good and Evil

A Note on Texts and Translations

Notes

Index

Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.