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Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”
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Abstract

Ecce Homo’s bombastic claims and much of its strange style can be best explained by noting Nietzsche’s ironic appropriation and redeployment of a series of literary techniques and stylistic elements common to Judeo-Christian apocalyptic narratives: a first-person narrative describing a revelatory disclosure (and its subsequent interpretation); a cosmic dualism of forces (Dionysus and “the Crucified”) and radical eschatological worldview; and an exhortation to shift our cognitive and behavioral comportment to reflect the altered perspective so revealed. No more a work of “madness” than the book of Revelation, then, its stylistic purpose is to highlight the importance of Nietzsche’s life and work as the surmounting of the (ostensibly) life-denying Christian worldview.

Abstract

Ecce Homo’s bombastic claims and much of its strange style can be best explained by noting Nietzsche’s ironic appropriation and redeployment of a series of literary techniques and stylistic elements common to Judeo-Christian apocalyptic narratives: a first-person narrative describing a revelatory disclosure (and its subsequent interpretation); a cosmic dualism of forces (Dionysus and “the Crucified”) and radical eschatological worldview; and an exhortation to shift our cognitive and behavioral comportment to reflect the altered perspective so revealed. No more a work of “madness” than the book of Revelation, then, its stylistic purpose is to highlight the importance of Nietzsche’s life and work as the surmounting of the (ostensibly) life-denying Christian worldview.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Abbreviations XI
  5. Editors’ Introduction 1
  6. Nietzsche’s Perfect Day 9
  7. I. Ecce Homo: Autobiography and Subjectivity
  8. Self-Knowledge in Narrative Autobiography 29
  9. “How One Becomes What One Is” 49
  10. Ecce Homo and Augustine’s Confessions 67
  11. How One Becomes What One Is 81
  12. Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the Flesh 91
  13. II. Specific Concepts in Ecce Homo
  14. Ecce Homo and Nietzsche’s Concept of Character 115
  15. Ecce Homo as Nietzsche’s Honest Lie 139
  16. “[K]ein Nordwind bin ich reifen Feigen” 153
  17. Lost in Translation: or Rhubarb, Rhubarb! 173
  18. III. Ecce Homo in Relation to Nietzsche’s Other Writings
  19. Self-Becoming, Culture and Education 189
  20. Ecce Superhomo 207
  21. The Roles of Zarathustra and Dionysos in Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and Late Philosophy 235
  22. IV. Revaluation and Revolution
  23. From “Saint” to “Satyr” 265
  24. “Ecrasez l’infâme!” 279
  25. A “Foretaste” of Revaluation 301
  26. V. Inspiration, Madness and Extremity
  27. Nietzsche’s Inspiration 313
  28. Apocalyptic ‘Madness’ 335
  29. Podachs zusammengebrochenes Werk 361
  30. “The Magic of the Extreme” 373
  31. Nietzsche’s Self-Evaluation as the Destiny of Philosophy and Humanity 385
  32. Bibliography 411
  33. Notes on Contributors 435
  34. Index 439
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246551-021

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Abbreviations XI
  5. Editors’ Introduction 1
  6. Nietzsche’s Perfect Day 9
  7. I. Ecce Homo: Autobiography and Subjectivity
  8. Self-Knowledge in Narrative Autobiography 29
  9. “How One Becomes What One Is” 49
  10. Ecce Homo and Augustine’s Confessions 67
  11. How One Becomes What One Is 81
  12. Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the Flesh 91
  13. II. Specific Concepts in Ecce Homo
  14. Ecce Homo and Nietzsche’s Concept of Character 115
  15. Ecce Homo as Nietzsche’s Honest Lie 139
  16. “[K]ein Nordwind bin ich reifen Feigen” 153
  17. Lost in Translation: or Rhubarb, Rhubarb! 173
  18. III. Ecce Homo in Relation to Nietzsche’s Other Writings
  19. Self-Becoming, Culture and Education 189
  20. Ecce Superhomo 207
  21. The Roles of Zarathustra and Dionysos in Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and Late Philosophy 235
  22. IV. Revaluation and Revolution
  23. From “Saint” to “Satyr” 265
  24. “Ecrasez l’infâme!” 279
  25. A “Foretaste” of Revaluation 301
  26. V. Inspiration, Madness and Extremity
  27. Nietzsche’s Inspiration 313
  28. Apocalyptic ‘Madness’ 335
  29. Podachs zusammengebrochenes Werk 361
  30. “The Magic of the Extreme” 373
  31. Nietzsche’s Self-Evaluation as the Destiny of Philosophy and Humanity 385
  32. Bibliography 411
  33. Notes on Contributors 435
  34. Index 439
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