Nietzsche's last laugh : Ecce Homo as satire / Nicholas D. More.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

More, Nicholas D., 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nietzsche's Ecce Homo was published posthumously in 1908, eight years after his death, and has been variously described ever since as useless, mad, or merely inscrutable. Against this backdrop, Nicholas D. More provides the first complete and compelling analysis of the work, and argues that this so-called autobiography is instead a satire. This form enables Nietzsche to belittle bad philosophy by comic means, attempt reconciliation with his painful past, review and unify his disparate works, insulate himself with humor from the danger of 'looking into abysses', and establish wisdom as a special kind of 'good taste'. After showing how to read this much-maligned book, More argues that Ecce Homo presents the best example of Nietzsche making sense of his own intellectual life, and that its unique and complex parody of traditional philosophy makes a powerful case for reading Nietzsche as a philosophical satirist across his corpus.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, citations, sources; Prologue; Introduction; Ecce Homo's reception; Ways of reading Nietzsche; Secondary literature on Ecce Homo; Principles and structure of the present study; Part I What is Ecce Homo?; Chapter 1 Nietzsche deigns to read himself; Chapter 2 A question of genre; Part II What is the meaning of Ecce Homo?; Chapter 3 Ecce Homo as satire: analysis and commentary; The title: Ecce Homo; The subtitle: How One Becomes What One Is; The Foreword

"On this perfect day . . ."Why I Am So Wise; Why I Am So Clever; Why I Write Such Excellent Books; The Birth of Tragedy; The Untimely Ones; Human, All Too Human; Daybreak; The Gay Science; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; Twilight of the Idols; The Case of Wagner; Why I Am A Destiny; Part III What is the significance of Ecce Homo?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-90535-X

1-139-91506-1

1-139-89945-7

1-139-90338-1

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1-139-91113-9

1-139-92287-4

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