Nietzsches 'Ecce Homo' and the Revaluation of All Values

Challenging the standard interpretation of Nietzsche''s last published work, Ecce Homo , as frivolous autobiography, Thomas H. Brobjer provides an original and detailed analysis of Ecce Homo as fundamental to Nietzsche''s unfinished masterwork on the revaluation of all values.Arguing that Ecce Homo laid the foundations for his planned four-volume work on values, Brobjer draws together the intentions and motivations behind Nietzsche''s late work to create a new narrative on it. He situates this period in the desire to undermine the system of Christian values that Nietzsche believed were unchecked as the standard moral gauge for his time. To engage in this project, Brobjer shows that it was essential for Nietzsche to explore the self and life-denying qualities of a Christian system of values within a broader framework of ideas about morality, altruism, egotism, pessimism, humility and pride.By fully outlining the context of Ecce Homo , Brobjer provides a complete corrective to its reception as a self-referential and eccentric text of little philosophical significance, enabling a new understanding within the history of philosophy and Nietzsche''s oeuvre.>

This book.. heralds a great future for Nietzsche scholarship, for what it calls and awakens a hunger for is the revaluation of both the Nachlass and Nietzsche's final two books.

Préface
Re-interpretation of Nietzsche's last work, Ecce Homo, exploring its under-acknowledged philosophical purpose and its connection to Nietzsche's unfinished work on the revaluation of all values.

Auteur
Thomas H. Brobjer is Professor of Intellectual History at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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Challenging the standard interpretation of Nietzsche's last published work, Ecce Homo, as frivolous autobiography, Thomas H. Brobjer provides an original and detailed analysis of Ecce Homo as fundamental to Nietzsche's unfinished masterwork on the revaluation of all values. Arguing that Ecce Homo laid the foundations for his planned four-volume work on values, Brobjer draws together the intentions and motivations behind Nietzsche's late work to create a new narrative on it. He situates this period in the desire to undermine the system of Christian values that Nietzsche believed were unchecked as the standard moral gauge for his time. To engage in this project, Brobjer shows that it was essential for Nietzsche to explore the self and life-denying qualities of a Christian system of values within a broader framework of ideas about morality, altruism, egotism, pessimism, humility and pride. By fully outlining the context of Ecce Homo, Brobjer provides a complete corrective to its reception as a self-referential and eccentric text of little philosophical significance, enabling a new understanding within the history of philosophy and Nietzsche's oeuvre.

Contenu

1. The Revaluation of All Values as the Purpose of Ecce Homo
   2. The Presence of the Revaluation of All Values in Other Later Books and Letters 3. Reading Ecce Homo as Preparatory to Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values
      4. The Last Chapter, Why I Am A Destiny, as Preparatory to the Revaluation of All Values
         5. The Roles of Zarathustra and Dionysos in Nietzsche's Ecce Homo and Late Texts 6. What Can We Learn about the Revaluation of All Values from Ecce homo and Late Texts? Appendix: Outline, Summary and Chronology of Ecce homo Notes Bibliography of Nietzsche literature Index