By Friedrich Nietzsche
In overdue 1888, purely weeks ahead of his ultimate cave in into insanity, Nietzsche (1844–1900) got down to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is still probably the most interesting but extraordinary examples of the style ever written. during this awesome paintings Nietzsche lines his lifestyles, paintings and improvement as a thinker, examines the heroes he has pointed out with, struggled opposed to after which triumph over – Schopenhauer, Wagner, Socrates, Christ – and predicts the cataclysmic impression of his 'forthcoming revelation of all values'. either self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and weird, Ecce Homo provides the ultimate, definitive expression to Nietzsche's major ideals and is in each approach his final testomony.
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I erect no new idols; let the old idols learn what it means to have legs of clay. To overthrow idols (my word for ‘ideals’) – that rather is my business. Reality has been deprived of its value, its meaning, its veracity to the same degree as an ideal world has been fabricated… The ‘real world’ and the ‘apparent world’ – in plain terms: the fabricated world and reality… The lie of the ideal has hitherto been the curse on reality, through it mankind itself has become mendacious and false down to its deepest instincts – to the point of worshipping the inverse values to those which alone could guarantee it prosperity, future, the exalted right to a future.
Not in vain have I buried my forty-fourth year today, I was entitled to bury it – what there was of life in it is rescued, is immortal. The first book of the Revaluation of all Values, the Songs of Zarathustra, the Twilight of the Idols, my attempt to philosophize with a hammer – all of them gifts of this year, of its last quarter even! How should I not be grateful to my whole life? – And so I tell myself my life. WHY I AM SO WISE 1 THE fortunateness of my existence, its uniqueness perhaps, lies in its fatality: to express it in the form of a riddle, as my father I have already died, as my mother I still live and grow old.
In its obituary The Times described him as ‘Britain’s foremost postwar Nietzsche specialist’ and the Guardian paid tribute to his ‘inspired gift for German translation’. Richard Gott wrote that he ‘brought fresh generations – through fluent and intelligent translation – to read and relish Nietzsche’s inestimable thought’. MICHAEL TANNER was educated in the RAF and at Cambridge University, where he was a Lecturer in Philosophy until 1997 and is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is equally interested in philosophy, music and literature, his particular areas being Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner.