Acknowledgments Selected Works Cited One Introduction: The Question Concerns Ethics Two The Question Turns on Ethics: Self-Overcoming in Nietzsche's Genealogy of the Ascetic Ideal 1. The Functions of Recoil 2. Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming Is the Middle Voice of Metaphysics 3. Genealogy and the Ascetic Ideal 4. The Ascetic Ideal and the Ascetic Priest: "There is Nothing of Virtue in This" 5. "Probably It Infects Even Us" Three Ethics Is the Question: The Fragmented Subject in Foucault's Genealogy 1. Genealogy's Ethos 2. The Unbearable Lightness of Reason: Reason's Recoil in Madness 3.

A Genealogy of Genealogical Knowledge 4. Fragmented Man 5. Games of Truth, the Ethical Subject Four The Question of Dasein's Most Proper Being 1. Dasein's Eigenste Being 2. A Recoiling Search for Authenticity 3. The Question of Suffering 4. Ecstasis 5. Overturning in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology 6.

The Truth of Ecstasis 7. Ethos/Ecstasis Five These Violent Passions: The Rector's Address Six "All Truth'--Is That Not a Compound Lie?" The Aescetic Ideal in Heidegger's Thought 1. The Unfolding of the Ascetic Ideal in the Unfolding of the Appeal of Being 2. Giving Thought to Simple Oneness 3. A Simple Conjunction 4. The Rule of Being in Gelassenheit 5. "We Need Desperately to See in the Dark" Notes Index.