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Ecce Homo
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1888 essay by Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- First published
- 1969
- Editions
- 2
- Subjects
- Ethics, Asceticism, open_syllabus_project
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Key facts
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Original title
- Ecce Homo: Wie man wird, was man ist
- Translator
- R. J. Hollingdale
- Language
- German
- Publication place
- Germany
- Media type
- Paperback, hardcover
- Pages
- 144 (2005 Penguin Classics ed.)
- Isbn
- 978-0140445152 (2005 Penguin Classics ed.)
- Library of congress classification span
- B3316.N54 A3413 1992
- Preceded by
- The Antichrist
- Followed by
- Nietzsche Contra Wagner
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~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (German: Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist) is the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his death in 1900. It was written in 1888 and was not published until 1908.
According to one of Nietzsche's most prominent English translators, Walter Kaufmann, the book offers "Nietzsche's own interpretation of his development, his works, and his significance." The book contains several chapters with self-laudatory titles, such as "Why I Am So Wise", "Why I Am So Clever", "Why I Write Such Good Books" and "Why I Am a Destiny". Kaufmann's Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist notes the internal parallels, in form and language, to Plato's Apology which documented the Trial of Socrates. In effect, Nietzsche was putting himself on trial with this work, and his sardonic judgments and chapter headings can be seen as mordant, mocking, self-deprecating, or sly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ecce Homo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.