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Ecce Homo

How One Becomes What One Is--Revised Edition

Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Introduction by Michael Tanner
Translated by R. J. Hollingdale
Notes by R. J. Hollingdale
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
On sale Dec 01, 1992 | 144 Pages | 9780140445152
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In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - Schopenhauer, Wagner, Socrates, Christ - and predicts the cataclysmic impact of his 'forthcoming revelation of all values'. Both self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and strange, Ecce Homo gives the final, definitive expression to Nietzsche's main beliefs and is in every way his last testament.
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche Introduction
Note on the Text
Chronology of Nietzsche's Life

ECCE HOMO: How One Becomes What One Is

Foreword
On this perfect day...
Why I am So Wise
Why I am So Clever
Why I Write Such Good Books
The Birth of Tragedy
The Untimely Essays
Human, All Too Human
Daybreak
The Gay Science
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
Genealogy of Morals
Twilight of the Idols
The Wagner Case
Why I Am a Destiny
Notes

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died 11 years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. View titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - Schopenhauer, Wagner, Socrates, Christ - and predicts the cataclysmic impact of his 'forthcoming revelation of all values'. Both self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and strange, Ecce Homo gives the final, definitive expression to Nietzsche's main beliefs and is in every way his last testament.

Table of Contents

Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche Introduction
Note on the Text
Chronology of Nietzsche's Life

ECCE HOMO: How One Becomes What One Is

Foreword
On this perfect day...
Why I am So Wise
Why I am So Clever
Why I Write Such Good Books
The Birth of Tragedy
The Untimely Essays
Human, All Too Human
Daybreak
The Gay Science
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
Genealogy of Morals
Twilight of the Idols
The Wagner Case
Why I Am a Destiny
Notes

Author

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died 11 years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. View titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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