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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

By Friedrich Nietzsche , Duncan Large

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
019283228X, 9780192832283
LCC
B3316.N54 A3413 2007
Open Library ID
OL17173942M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
967 kB (990183 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Pages
177\177
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

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 the incessant struggle to overcome himself. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled ""How One Becomes What One Is"" reviews all of Nietzsche's previous works so that we, his ""posthumous"" readers, can finally understand him on his own terms. He reaches final criticism of 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.

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