ABSTRACT
Friedrich Nietzsche attempts to construct a cartography of philosophy — past, present, and future — in terms of how it describes, redescribes, and inscribes itself within territories and spaces. It is this project, rather than Nietzsche’s accounts of his travels, his love or hate of specific sites, or the meticulously recorded responses of this human barometer and seismograph to landscapes, climates and micro-climates, that lead Deleuze and Guattari to call Nietzsche the inventor of geophilosophy. In the course of his work, Nietzsche’s horizon expands from a focus on Greece and Germany, to a European perspective and he eventually says that even an understanding of Europe requires a “trans-European eye.” The good European is the goal of Beyond Good and Evil, holding the same place in that work that the posthuman occupies in Zarathustra. If Zarathustra is a fantastic figure, deriving from a specifically non-European landscape, the good European is something of tomorrow or the day after.
