Acknowledgements Abbreviations Manner of citation Translations Introduction 1. The Problem of Contradiction and Real Opposition in Kant and Nietzsche I. Introduction i. A Short History Of ‘Opposition’ (Gegensatz) and ‘Contradiction’ (Widerspruch) II. Kant’s Concept of Negative Magnitudes: Real vs. Logical Opposition i. Kant’s Ontology of Conflict ii. Further Applications of Real Opposition iii. The Source or Ground of Change iv. Kant’s Ontology of Mental Life v. Real Opposition Between Different Bodies vi. Critique of Logical Causation vii. With or Without Substance? III. The Problem of Opposition and Contradiction in Nietzsche’s Thought i. Introduction ii. Nietzsche’s Ontology of Conflict iii. Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Logic iv. Logical Contradiction v. The Ontology of Mental Life vi. From Mechanism To Physiology and Wills to Power vii. Nietzsche’s Critique of Mechanism viii. The Epistemology of Conflict IV. Real Opposition in Nietzsche’s Thought 2. Waging War Against War: Nietzsche Contra Kant on Conflict and the Question of a Living Peace I. Introduction II. Eternal Peace and the Peace of the Graveyard III. Conflict Unlimited and Limited: Nietzsche’s Vernichtungskampf and the Wettkampf IV. Kant’s Philosophical War of Extermination Against War V. Rethinking Conflict as Productive: Nietzsche’s Affirmative Ideal VI. Nietzsche Contra Kant, Kant Contra Nietzsche VII. Approaching a living peace: A Rapprochement? 3. Health, Sex and Sovereignty: Nietzsche Contra Kant on Productive Resistance I. Introduction II. Resistance in Nietzsche III. Nietzsche Vs. Kant on Productive Resistance IV. Freedom, respect for the law and the physiology of agency 4. Towards a New Agonism? Nietzsche’s ‘fine, well-planned, thoughtful egoism’ contra Kant’s ‘unsociable sociability’ I. Introduction II. Kant: ungesellige Geselligkeit III. Nietzsche on Fine, Well-Planned, Thoughtful Egoism IV. Hostile Calm, Calm Hostility: Towards a New Agonism? 5. Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Hatred: Against and With Kant I. Introduction II. Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Hatred III. Kant on Hatred IV. The Hatred of Impotence and the Spirit of Revenge V. Nietzsche’s Responses to the Problem of Hatred VI. The Slave Revolt of Morality and the Problem of Emancipation Epilogue Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

Siemens’ new book on Kant and Nietzsche on conflict is compelling for its scholarly excellence and its relevant actuality. It is also an essential reflection on conflict as inherent to human lives. He provides both careful close-reading analysis and crystalline synthesis in a seamless and elegant language.