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Tables of Contents for Ride the Tiger
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part 1: Orientations
1
15
The Modern World and Traditional Man
2
6
The End of a Cycle---``Ride the Tiger''
8
7
Part 2: In the World Where God Is Dead
15
62
European Nihilism---The Dissolution of Morals
16
4
From the Precursors of Nihilism to the ``Lost Youth'' and the Protest Movement
20
7
Disguises of European Nihilism---The Socioeconomic Myth and the Protest Movement
27
7
Active Nihilism---Nietzsche
34
7
``Being Oneself''
41
6
The Transcendent Dimension---``Life'' and ``More Than Life''
47
7
Beyond Theism and Atheism
54
6
Invulnerability---Apollo and Dionysus
60
8
Acting without Desire---The Causal Law
68
9
Part 3: The Dead End of Existentialism
77
28
Being and Inauthentic Existence
78
5
Sartre: Prisoner without Walls
83
3
Existence, ``A Project Flung into the World''
86
9
Heidegger: ``Retreating Forwards'' and ``Being-for-Death''---Collapse of Existentialism
95
10
Part 4: Dissolution of the Individual
105
24
The Dual Aspect of Anonymity
106
6
Destructions and Liberations in the New Realism
112
8
The ``Animal Ideal''---The Sentiment of Nature
120
9
Part 5: Dissolution of Consciousness and Relativism
129
20
The Procedures of Modern Science
130
7
Covering up Nature---Phenomenology
137
12
Part 6: The Realm of Art---From ``Physical'' Music to the Drug Regime
149
22
The Sickness of European Culture
150
3
Dissolution in Modern Art
153
6
Modern Music and Jazz
159
7
Excursus on Drugs
166
5
Part 7: Dissolution in the Social Realm
171
36
States and Parties---Apoliteia
172
5
Society---The Crisis of Patriotic Feeling
177
8
Marriage and the Family
185
10
Relations between the Sexes
195
12
Part 8: The Spiritual Problem
207
22
The ``Second Religiosity''
208
10
Death---The Right over Life
218
11
Notes
229
10
Index
239