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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

By Nietzsche , Friedrich Wilhelm , Friedrich Wilhelm; Large , Duncan; Nietzsche

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780191517792, 0191517798, 978-0-19-283228-3, 019283228X
Language
englishgerman
Format
PDF
Filesize
967 kB (990509 bytes)
Series
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Pages
138\177
Time added
2016-01-18 05:00:00
-- 1844-1900. Philosophers -- GerFriedrich WilhelmNietzsche

Description

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 passes under review all of Nietzsche's previous works so that we, his "posthumous"readers, can finally understand him, on his own terms. He reaches final reckonings with his many enemies, including 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

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