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Nietzsche's Last Laugh - Ecce Homo as Satire (Hardcover, New)
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Nietzsche's Last Laugh - Ecce Homo as Satire (Hardcover, New)
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Nietzsche's Ecce Homo was published posthumously in 1908, eight
years after his death, and has been variously described ever since
as useless, mad, or merely inscrutable. Against this backdrop,
Nicholas D. More provides the first complete and compelling
analysis of the work, and argues that this so-called autobiography
is instead a satire. This form enables Nietzsche to belittle bad
philosophy by comic means, attempt reconciliation with his painful
past, review and unify his disparate works, insulate himself with
humor from the danger of 'looking into abysses', and establish
wisdom as a special kind of 'good taste'. After showing how to read
this much-maligned book, More argues that Ecce Homo presents the
best example of Nietzsche making sense of his own intellectual
life, and that its unique and complex parody of traditional
philosophy makes a powerful case for reading Nietzsche as a
philosophical satirist across his corpus.
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