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mattinthebooks's review against another edition
3.0
doesn’t bring anything new to the table but there is no better summarizer of Nietzsche than Nietzsche
casparb's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Nietzsche has a thing for titles - Human, All Too Human, Twilight of the Idols, The Birth of Tragedy, The Anti-Christ. Ecce Homo might be his cheekiest, and possibly my favourite in that regard. N is Pilate, Christ, and the Anti-Christ.
It's very unorthodox if we consider it as an autobiography, so perhaps we shouldn't. The meat of the text forms a kind of review or clarification of his own books - Ecce Homo as autobibliography?
There's a lot of variation in interest. Sometimes the details are so trivial that I wonder if Nietzsche is being purely satirical, even insulting: must we know precisely how much tea it is best for the bowels to consume at which time of day? But, as is his way, I think that tends to be made up for in the electric glimpses of something more. There is a very real glimpse of the question of Being as Heidegger would later develop it.
Ecce Homo is therefore something between a curiosity and a necessary revisionary exercise. Interesting but not the most satisfying of his books. I've been meaning to go back to the Genealogy of Morals in order to redeem myself from my initial reaction there.
It's very unorthodox if we consider it as an autobiography, so perhaps we shouldn't. The meat of the text forms a kind of review or clarification of his own books - Ecce Homo as autobibliography?
There's a lot of variation in interest. Sometimes the details are so trivial that I wonder if Nietzsche is being purely satirical, even insulting: must we know precisely how much tea it is best for the bowels to consume at which time of day? But, as is his way, I think that tends to be made up for in the electric glimpses of something more. There is a very real glimpse of the question of Being as Heidegger would later develop it.
Ecce Homo is therefore something between a curiosity and a necessary revisionary exercise. Interesting but not the most satisfying of his books. I've been meaning to go back to the Genealogy of Morals in order to redeem myself from my initial reaction there.
maria_borges1507's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Compelling writing, absurd philosophy.
The man had an ego bigger than the Sun!
The man had an ego bigger than the Sun!
kevin_shepherd's review
4.0
It may be important to note that Nietzsche was a contemporary of both Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. I feel it is safe to say that of the three, Nietzsche is the least understood.
“My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.” ~Nietzsche, ‘The Antichrist’
Ecce Homo (1888) is an odd sort of autobiography; an egocentric sleigh ride through the accomplishments and accolades of a man who we now know was on the brink of a breakdown.
I am not ashamed to say that I have trouble deciphering all the aphorisms and irony here. Having already read Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and The Antichrist (1888) and Twilight of the Idols (1889), you’d think by now there would be no more surprises. And you’d be wrong.
Nietzsche is fluent in sarcasm and derision. He also makes incessant references to Arthur Schopenhauer and Immanuel Kant and Richard Wagner; to the extent that they are prerequisites for any real study in Nietzschian philosophy.
In spite of the challenges, I enjoy reading Nietzsche. I can never take what he says at face value, there are (almost) always malapropisms and sophistries and condescensions to consider. He makes me think.
“My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.” ~Nietzsche, ‘The Antichrist’
Ecce Homo (1888) is an odd sort of autobiography; an egocentric sleigh ride through the accomplishments and accolades of a man who we now know was on the brink of a breakdown.
I am not ashamed to say that I have trouble deciphering all the aphorisms and irony here. Having already read Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and The Antichrist (1888) and Twilight of the Idols (1889), you’d think by now there would be no more surprises. And you’d be wrong.
Nietzsche is fluent in sarcasm and derision. He also makes incessant references to Arthur Schopenhauer and Immanuel Kant and Richard Wagner; to the extent that they are prerequisites for any real study in Nietzschian philosophy.
In spite of the challenges, I enjoy reading Nietzsche. I can never take what he says at face value, there are (almost) always malapropisms and sophistries and condescensions to consider. He makes me think.
birgits_bookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Interessante Gedankengänge, vermutlich hätte ich nicht mit diesem Buch anfangen sollen Nietzsche zu lesen. ;)
anastasiahiraeth's review against another edition
4.0
This is not your classic autobiography. This is Nietzsche explaining his thoughts and ideas, how he thinks and why he thinks like that. Very complex, very demanding to read but SO worth it.
gijs's review against another edition
4.0
Nietzsche, in his annus horribilis, laying the axe at the root of morality; the master-slave relation, decadence, the will to power, the inversion of values by Christianity and his ultimate bid of a transvaluation of values; Ecce Homo never fails in kickstarting a critical rethinking of all the convictions you hold dear.