Nietzsche's "Ecce homo" / edited by Nicholas Martin, Duncan Large.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Nicholas, editor.

Large, Duncan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Ecce homo.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 445 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 its reception, Ecce Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a testament to its author’s incipient madness. This was hardly surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the ‘megalomaniacal’ self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and brazenly claims ‘I am not a man, I am dynamite’ as he attempts to explode one preconception after another in the Western philosophical tradition. In recent decades there has been increased interest in the work, especially in the English-speaking world, but the present volume is the first collection of essays in any language devoted to the work. Most of the essays are selected from the proceedings of an international conference held in London to mark the centenary of the first publication of Ecce Homo in 2008. They are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays. Contributors include established and emerging Nietzsche scholars from the UK and USA, Germany and France, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110246551

3110246554

OCLC:

1229161302