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Ecce Homo : How To Become What You Are
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Friedrich Nietzsche , Translated by Duncan Large


I am not a man, I am dynamite.

Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled How To Become What You Are passes under review all Nietzsches previous works so that we, his posthumous readers, can finally understand
him aright, on his own terms. He reaches final reckonings with his many enemies - Richard Wagner, German nationalism, modern men in general - and above all Christianity, proclaiming himself the Antichrist. Ecce Homo is the summation of an extraordinary philosophical career, a last great testament to
Nietzsches will.

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Product details

Format Paperback | 176 pages
Dimensions 130 x 197 x 11mm | 137g
Publication date 11 Oct 2009
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
ISBN10 0199552568
ISBN13 9780199552566
Bestsellers rank 68,170