Becoming a Destiny: The Nietzsche Vogue in French intellectual Life, 1891-1918

Introduction................................................................................... 1

 

Part I. Nietzsche and the Republic of Letters............................ 24

 

1. Anti-Wagnerism and Cultural Regeneration:

The Emergence of an Avant-Garde.......................................... 25

 

2. The Avant-Garde Nietzsche Project: Symbolic

Profits and Literary Strategies................................................. 75

 

3. Of Biography, Physiognomy, and Nationality:

Literary Appropriations of Nietzsche.......................................130

 

Part II. On the Land of Education............................................ 175

 

4. On the Prejudices of Philosophers:

Philosophical Discourse on Nietzsche.....................................176

 

5. The Pathos of Distance: Intrusions and

Exclusions in Academic Sociology.......................................... 233

 

Part III. Literary Politics and Political Literature.................. 277

 

6. From Anti-Dreyfusism to Royalism: The

Construction of a Rightist Nietzsche......................................278

 

7. From Le Parti Socialiste to Revolutionary

Syndicalism: Nietzsche and the Socialist

Avant-Garde......................................................................... 334

 

Part IV. The Twilight of an Idol............................................... 394

 

8. Immoralism and the Maturity of the Avant-Garde:

From the Mercure de France to the Nouvelle

Revue Francaise....................................................................395

 

9. The Twilight of an Idol: Exorcising Nietzsche

and Les Nietzscheens.......................................................... 466

 

Conclusion............................................................................... 510

 

Bibliography.............................................................................517