Reading the signs of the times: Nietzsche contra Nietzsche -- The economy of decadence -- Peoples and ages: the mortal soul writ large -- Et tu, Nietzsche? -- Parastrategesis: esotericism for decadents -- Skirmishes of an untimely man: Nietzsche's revaluation of all values -- Standing between two millennia: intimations of the antichrist -- Conclusion: Odysseus bound?