Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo” / / ed. by Duncan Large, Nicholas Martin.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889, but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared only in 1908. For much of the first century of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 445 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Nietzsche’s Perfect Day
  • I. Ecce Homo: Autobiography and Subjectivity
  • Self-Knowledge in Narrative Autobiography
  • “How One Becomes What One Is”
  • Ecce Homo and Augustine’s Confessions
  • How One Becomes What One Is
  • Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the Flesh
  • II. Specific Concepts in Ecce Homo
  • Ecce Homo and Nietzsche’s Concept of Character
  • Ecce Homo as Nietzsche’s Honest Lie
  • “[K]ein Nordwind bin ich reifen Feigen”
  • Lost in Translation: or Rhubarb, Rhubarb!
  • III. Ecce Homo in Relation to Nietzsche’s Other Writings
  • Self-Becoming, Culture and Education
  • Ecce Superhomo
  • The Roles of Zarathustra and Dionysos in Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and Late Philosophy
  • IV. Revaluation and Revolution
  • From “Saint” to “Satyr”
  • “Ecrasez l’infâme!”
  • A “Foretaste” of Revaluation
  • V. Inspiration, Madness and Extremity
  • Nietzsche’s Inspiration
  • Apocalyptic ‘Madness’
  • Podachs zusammengebrochenes Werk
  • “The Magic of the Extreme”
  • Nietzsche’s Self-Evaluation as the Destiny of Philosophy and Humanity
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index