Nihilism Before Nietzsche

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PrefaceIntroduction 1: Descartes and the Deceiver God 2: Descartes and the Origin of the Absolute I 3: Fichte and the Dark Night of the Noumenal I 4: The Dawn of the Demonic: Romanticism and Nihilism 5: The Demons Unbound: Russian Nihilism and the Pursuit of the Promethean 6: From the Demonic to the Dionysian 7: Dionysus and the Triumph of NihilismEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex

Résumé
In this work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject.