Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Part I: The Cult of Self
Chapter 2: Seeds of Emancipation 31
Chapter 3: Severing the Ties that Bind 41
Chapter 4: The Romantic Solipsist 56
Chapter 5: A Church of One 94
Chapter 6: "And Zarathustra saw that he was alone" 105
Chapter 7: Longing for the World 125
Chapter 8: The Idol Fallen and Resurrected 151
Chapter 9: The Prison 168
Part II: The Religion of Reality
Chapter 10: The Sense of Reality 177
Chapter 11: How Reality was Lost 185
Chapter 12: The Battle over Reality 190
Chapter 13: On Representation 218
Chapter 14: On Love, Beauty, and Evil 229
Chapter 15: Art and Experience 255
Chapter 16: The Will to Weakness 26862
Chapter 17: Art and Imagination 285
Chapter 18: Art and Nature 295
Chapter 19: Submission, Necessity, Death 316
Chapter 20: Art and Sacrifice 333
Chapter 21: Art and Work 348
Chapter 22: The Comedy of Art 357
Chapter 23: The Religion in Art 365
Chapter 24: Art and Love 375
Chapter 25: Postscript on Art and Religion 403
Bibliography 410