Nietzsche and Madness
Evangelou addresses pressing questions revolving around Nietzsche and (his) madness and investigates madness from a twofold perspective: the madness of Nietzsche and madness for Nietzsche. While the former refers, apart from Nietzsche's own mental condition, to the ways in which his madness is understood as a potential threat to his philosophy, the latter is concerned with Nietzsche's own viewpoint and attitude toward madness. Evangelou accounts for the tension which arises from Nietzsche's dismissal of madness as philosophically indifferent on the one hand, and the fact that he has turned into a philosophical icon of the renegade from reason on the other. To respond to this tension, Evangelou proposes that one consider the 'Nietzsche event' which consists of three separate events encompassing both Nietzsche's life and philosophy.