Ecce Homo

How To Become What You Are

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ID23185262
AuthorsFriedrich Nietzsche (corresponding author)
EditorsDuncan Large
Year2009
Publication date2009-05-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEcce Homo How To Become What You Are (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/owc/9780199552566.001.0001
OpenAlexW4380322808
Open LibraryOL25957020M
ISBN9780199552566
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled ‘How To Become What You Are’ passes under review all Nietzsche’s previous works so that we, his ‘posthumous’ readers, can finally understand him aright, on his own terms. He reaches final reckonings with his many enemies - Richard Wagner, German nationalism, ‘modern men’ in general - and above all Christianity, proclaiming himself the Antichrist. Ecce Homo is the summation of an extraordinary philosophical career, a last great testament to Nietzsche’s will.

Art · Art history · Biography · Christianity · Genius · German · HERO · Literature · Poetry · Theology · History · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) · Long Now Manual for Civilization · Philosophers

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