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Original Title:	Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist
ISBN:	0140445153 (ISBN13: 9780140445152)
Edition Language:	English

Ecce Homo Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

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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.

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Title	:	Ecce Homo
Author	:	Friedrich Nietzsche
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	1992 by Penguin (first published 1888)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Biography. Classics

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I was a very serious student during the last two years at Grinnell College. Senior year had a pattern of working in the library all day, going to the work-study job at its Pub Club at night, heading back to the Vegetarian Coop after cleaning up the bar to study in until too weary to continue. It was then that I seriously read Goethe's Faust, most of Nietzsche and, of course, a lot of C.G. Jung, particularly his alchemical writings.Until the very end of senior year I had no girlfriend. Indeed, I

"Ecce Homo" is Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography. Ostensibly. There's not much autobiographical information in there, though. Just that he was born in Poland to parents with long Polish bloodlines. (He wasn't born in Poland.) That's about it for simple biographical information. The rest was a never-ending love letter from Nietzsche to Nietzsche.It's not nice to laugh at people, but I couldn't help myself. By the time Nietzsche got around to his autobiography, he was batshit crazy, just heaping

This is the first real book by FN that I've actually managed to finish in one go. As far as philosophical substance is concerned, I don't feel like FN has a lot to offer except for excessive vitalism in a dionysian mode as an antidode to "idealism" (truth, god, justice, morality, etc), all the vehicles of decadence. Otherwise, it is a collection of pithy meditations on the views expressed in his major works. Obviously, Zarathustra, the untimely prophet, seems to hold a special place in his art,

There is something refreshing in Nietzsche's writings, and I believe it may be the man himself, his lingering specter. Nietzsche is hauntingly present in every phrase, in every word, as if--crazy though this sounds to say--like Whitman he wants to hold your hand when you read him. I say that in spite of all his sharp edges and all his aggressive posturing. In the space between the words maybe, a melancholy care bleeds through, years be damned. It makes for fascinating reading.Ecce Homo was

Because he was mad, because he was brilliant, because he was on the very brink of complete collapse, because he was Nietzschegrand and provocativeit is difficult, if even possible, to know what the author was up to in this book. Many things probably. Supposedly an autobiography, Ecce Homo is certainly a rich and incomplete psychological portrait. Perhaps just as Michael Tanner says of the subtitle, How One Becomes What One Is, in the introduction: one needs to read the whole book to see what it

Another snip from OUP's summer sale (two quid), a great bedside companion for those on the brink of insanity (Nietzsche went over the edge a few weeks after completing it). With section headings such as 'Why I am So Clever' who could resist? Plus, of course, his own commentary on his great books (preceded by a section, 'Why I Write Such Good Books'. It's sort of sad but gentle too, the second half slowing down some and almost undercutting the usual poetic at times. Well worth a dip now and then.

Well this is one of those difficult books to review. Nietzche's extensive influence on contemporary thought is certainly without question. This book is itself quite a funny read on its satirical level. However, it exaggerates for effect Nietzsche's belief in his own greatness, so while it may be technically overstated in the book, Nietzsche believes the underlying point: that he has understood the misdirection of the human race unlike any who have ever been created. Where 2000 years of human