Translator’s Preface
Introduction: Becoming a Philosopher
Chapter 1: Traveling South
A Stateless Man’s Passport
Night Train through Mont Cenis
The Camels of Pisa
Naples: First Revelation of the South
Chapter 2: “The School of Educators” at the Villa Rubinacci
Richard Wagner in Sorrento
The Monastery of Free Spirits
Dreaming of the Dead
Chapter 3: Walks on the Land of the Sirens
The Carnival of Naples
Mithras at Capri
Chapter 4:
Sorrentiner Papiere
Rée-alism and the Chemical Combinations of Atoms
The Logic of Dreams
An Epicurean in Sorrento
Sacred Music on an African Background
The Sun of Knowledge and the Ground of Things
The Blessed Isles
Chapter 5: The Bells of Genoa and Nietzschean Epiphanies
Epiphanies
The Value of Human Things
Crossed Geneses
The Azure Bell of Innocence
Zarathustra’s Night Song
Epilogue to the Bell
Chapter 6:
Torna a Surriento
Editions, Abbreviations, Bibliography
Works Cited
List of Figures
Index