Table of Contents

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

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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.

About the Author

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

Reviews

Thomas Brobjer’s book on Ecce homo presents Nietzsche’s autogenealogy in a provocative new way. It is a challenge particularly for Anglophone Nietzsche scholars engaged in rather scholastic debates. The study demonstrates how Ecce homo is intended to prepare Nietzsche’s late main project of a “transvaluation of all values” (“Umwerthung aller Werthe”) and how this project has to be reconsidered.
*Andreas Urs Sommer, Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Nietzsche Research Center, University of Freiburg, Germany*

Brobjer avoids dichotomising between Ecce Homo as autobiography and as a philosophical work, recognising the interconnection between Nietzsche’s life and philosophy. Employing thorough analysis of letters and drafts, Brobjer takes a distinctive approach to Ecce Homo as preparing a revaluation of values, while advancing important reflections on the symbol of Dionysius.
*Katrina Mitcheson, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, UK*

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.
*Journal of the History of Philosophy*