Table of Contents

I   Archaic Division of Powers

1 After the Absolutism of Reality

2 The Name Breaks into the Chaos of the Unnamed

3 ‘Significance’

4 Procedural Regulations

II   Stories Become History

1 The Distortion of Temporal Perspective

2 Fundamental Myths and Art Myths

3 Myths and Dogmas

4 To Bring Myth to an End

III   The Theft of Fire Ceases to Be Sacrilege

1 The Reception of the Sources Produces the Sources of the Reception

2 Sophists and Cynics: Antithetical Aspects of the Prometheus Material

3 Return from Existential Groundlessness

4 Aesthetic Brightening Up

IV   Against a God, Only a God

Introduction

1 "Priming Powder for an Explosion"

2 A Conflict between Gods

3 Prometheus Becomes Napoleon, Napoleon Prometheus

4 Ways of Reading the "Extraordinary Saying"

V   The Titan in His Century

1 Passage through the Philosophy of History

2 On the Rock of Mute Solitude Again

3 To Bring to an End, If Not Myth, Then a Least One Myth