ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to reconcile Friedrich Nietzsche's apparent esteem for love in terms of amor fati with an otherwise fairly consistent dislike, and even hatred of love in other contexts. The chapter argues that in amor fati, Nietzsche has not so much given himself over to love as he has turned the concept inside out. In the early Christian period, working off the legacy of Greek philosophy, love was seen as combining otherwise discordant elements, harmonising them insofar as individual interests were subordinated to a common bond under God. At first glance, much of what Nietzsche has to say about love is distinctly negative. For instance, in The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche reveals that love, certainly its Christian and Greek variants is merely an offshoot of hatred. Nietzsche is careful to point out that fatalism does not always mean a 'courage to die', that is a passivity unto death.
