by Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140443936
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«Ecce Homo» is the philosophical autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, in Penguin Classics paperback, 140 pages, English.
Autobiography written in 1888 shortly before Nietzsche's mental collapse. The author reviews his previous work and his enemies —Richard Wagner, German nationalism, the «modern men» and Christianity—, proclaims himself the Antichrist, and defines his purpose in the subtitle «How One Becomes What One Is»: to show how to become oneself.
Work published posthumously in 1908. The 1979 Penguin Classics edition includes the English translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with introduction and notes by the same translator.
Aimed at philosophy readers and the general public interested in Nietzsche's thought.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
