Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of history

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-365) and index.

Introduction -- The failure of neo-humanism -- Philologists, liberals, and the nation -- The Austro-Prussian War in Leipzig -- The demands of history -- Toward a cautious materialism -- Teleology and the laws of history -- The formation of imperial Germany, seen from Basel -- Intellectual culture in Basel -- The practice of cultural history -- The need for philosophical education -- The "German spirit" and the Franco-Prussian War -- The crisis of historical culture -- The crisis of historicism -- What is orientation in history? -- The political mobilization of myth -- "The soul of the antiquarian" -- The impossible critical historian -- Political lessons from cultural anthropology -- The view from outside -- Lessons from anthropology -- Metaphor, myth, and cultural reality -- "Survivals" - religion and the nation state -- Political realism and the "free spirit" -- Genealogy, naturalism, and the political -- The path to genealogy -- A natural history of moral communities -- Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility -- The task of genealogy -- "To translate humanity back into nature" -- The idea of Europe and the limits of genealogy -- "The creation of the European individual" -- Beyond the modern nation state -- Political realities in imperial Germany -- Modernity and the limits of genealogy.