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Ecce Homo
How One Becomes What One Is
Narrator: Steven Van Doren
Unabridged: 4 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/23/2009
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
Ecce homo, behold the man, are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary selfportrait. A main purpose of the book was to offer Nietzsche's own perspective on his work as a philosopher and human being. Ecce Homo also forcefully repudiates those interpretations of his previous works purporting to find support for imperialism, antiSemitism, militarism, and Social Darwinism.
Nietzsche strives to present a new image of the philosopher and of himself as a philosopher. He expounds upon his life as a child, his tastes as an individual, and his vision for humanity. On these grounds, some consider Ecce Homo a literary work comparable in its artistry to Van Gogh's paintings.