Fall2020

Table of Contents
Introduction to Nietzsche and Sports
xi
Miscellaneous
Myth and the Problem of Initiation in The Birth of Tragedy 114
Callum Blake
Essays on Nietzsche and Sport
Beyond Face and Heel: Nietzsche’s
Agonism and the Pro-Wrestling Spectacle 1
Ben Abelson
The Waves Rise Around Your Mountain 18
Daniel Brennan
Sport: Instrument of Nihilism or Praxis of Lightness? 32
Luc Viet Anh Ha
Nietzsche’s Collective “Will to Power” and the Coaching Style
of Phil Jackson 52
Bradley Kaye
Nietzsche, Zarthustra, and the Three Metamorphosis of the Spirit:
Possible Contributions to the Concept of Game 78
Odilon José Roble,
Marcus Vinícius Simões de Campos and
Fidel Machado de Castro Silva
Shooting with Arrows: Archery Symbolism
in Nietzsche’s Agonism 94
Yunus Tuncel
“Bad Boy Nietzsche!?”: The Literature of Alienation in the Late
Writings: Ivan Soll on the Chapter Titles of Ecce Homo 132
Thomas Steinbuch
Book Reviews
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century: Social Questions and
Philosophical Interventions. 158
Robert C. Holub:
Reviewed by Daniel Blue
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and
the Modern Drama. 168
Kornhaber, David.
Reviewed by Dirk R. Johnson
Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson 178
Benedetta Zavatta
Reviewed by Laura Langone
Bios of Contributors 186
The Agonist Call for Papers for Spring 2021 192
Revisiting Nietzsche’s The Antichrist
Submission Guidelines 194