Ecce Homo

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Ecce Homo

How To Become What You Are

Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Ethics and moral philosophy

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Collection: Oxford World's Classics

Language: English

Published by: OUP Oxford

Published on: 10th May 2007

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9780191605222


''I am not a man, I am dynamite.''

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.

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