Nandita Biswas Mellamphy 
The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche 
Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism

Following Nietzsche’s call for a philosopher-physician and his own use of the bodily language of health and illness as tools to diagnose the ailments of the body politic, this book offers a reconstruction of the concept of political physiology in Nietzsche’s thought, bridging gaps between Anglo-American, German and French schools of interpretation.

Table of Content

Preface Introduction: The Mnemotechnics Of Nihilism and the Political Physiology of Eternal Recurrence The Displaced ‘Origin’ of Political Physiology The Economic Problem of Production: Nature, Culture, Life The Dynamics of Opposition and the Transformation of the Ubermensch Self Annihilation and the Metamorphosis of Nihilism The Pathology of Amor Fati: Eros and Eschaton Novum Organum: The Overhuman as the Overmanifold Postface: The Transmigration of Homo Natura Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

NANDITA BISWAS MELLAMPHY is Assistant Professor of Political Theory, and core faculty in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at The University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on Nietzsche’s political thought and its influence on contemporary interdisciplinary theory. She is also an exponent of the classical Indian dance style of Bharatanatya and has toured extensively in North America.