Introduction
I. Semantics of Ambition
II. Eris - Agon - Ambition
III. Ambition in Modernity
1. A New Era of Ambition (Jacob Burckhardt)
2. The Ambition of Equals (Alexis de Tocqueville)
3. Critique of Success (Gustav Ichheiser)
4. Critique of Contemplation (Karl Mannheim)
5. The Ambitious Spoilsport (Roger Caillois)
6. Hesiod’s Return in the Achieving Society (David McClelland)
7. Burning Ambition (Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler)
The Ambition to Reject Ambition: An Afterword with a View to Montaigne
Index