TY - BOOK AU - Nietzsche,Friedrich AU - Hollingdale,Reginald John AU - Nietzsche,Friedrich TI - Ecce homo: how one becomes what one is T2 - Penguin classics SN - 0140443932 AV - B3316.N54 U1 - 193 19 PY - 1979/// CY - Harmondsworth, Eng, New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm KW - Philosophers KW - Germany KW - Biography KW - Lasky collection N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome Schopenhauer, Wagner, Socrates, Christ and predicts the cataclysmic impact of his forthcoming revelation of all values'. Both self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and strange, Ecce Homo gives the final, definitive expression to Nietzsche's main beliefs and is in every way his last testament ER -