In a letter dated the 27th of Decemberġ888, addressed to the musical composer Fuchs, the author declares It was not published in Germany until the year 1908, eight It was finished on the 4th of November of the same year, and, butįor a few trifling modifications and additions, is just as Nietzsche It took Nietzsche barely three weeks to write this story of his life.īegun on the 15 th of October 1888, his four-and-fourtieth birthday, Remark: " Nur Lumpe sind bescheiden" (Only nobodies are ever modest). Or pretend to possess, it is time to remind them of Goethe's famous Like modesty on the part of the truly great if they raise their voicesĪgainst Nietzsche's lack of the very virtue they so abundantly possess For little people can be endured onlyĪs modest citizens or humble Christians. Preached far and wide as a corrective against the vulgar pretensions of In a democratic age in which people have lost all sense of graduationĪnd rank and in which the virtues of modesty and humility have to be Have disturbed the equanimity, and "objectivity" in particular, ofĬertain Nietzsche biographers, can be regarded as pathological only Such chapter headings as "Why I am so Wise," "Why I am aįatality," "Why I write such Excellent Books,"-however much they may In these pages, is neither morbid nor suspicious, but necessary and Of the significance of what he has accomplished, and that if he isĪware of it, then self-realisation, even of the kind which we find Least, that a man either is, or is not, aware of his significance and To those who know Nietzsche's life-work, no apology will be neededįor the form and content of this wonderful work. Which there is no quarter, and for which no Geneva Convention has yet
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Last struck him down in the full vigour of his manhood, and left himĪ victim on the battlefield-the terrible battlefield of thought, on The philosophers of Christendom-had praised so whole-heartedly, at Life, was in singular harmony with his doctrine: he died suddenlyĪnd proudly,-sword in hand. Nietzsche's spiritual death, like his whole Lying on his back, decrepit and exhausted, or to the moribund victim Manner which is not vouchsafed to the groaning invalid, to the man To measure his own life and life in general, and speak of both in a Is still himself while he still knows what he is about, and is able
Intimates when his time seems to have come-that is to say, while he 36, Part ix.), he declares thatĮvery one should be able to take leave of his circle of relatives and Nietzsche here bids his friends farewell, just in the manner in which, As if half conscious of his approaching spiritual end, Worthy of the wonderful creations of that year, but also a fittingĬonclusion to his whole life, in the form of a grand summing up of hisĬharacter as a man, his purpose as a reformer, and his achievementĪs a thinker. Idols, and The Antichrist, Ecce Homo is not only a coping-stone
Year in which he had produced the Case of Wagner, The Twilight of the Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, etc.
Later than the Autobiography but we cannot consider this pamphlet asĪnything more than a compilation, seeing that it consists entirely ofĪphorisms drawn from such previous works as Joyful Wisdom, Beyond That the pamphlet Nietzsche contra Wagner was prepared a month FOULIS 13 & 15 FREDERICK STREET EDINBURGH: AND LONDON 1911Įcce Homo is the last prose work that Nietzsche wrote. The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche The First Complete and Authorised English Translation Edited by Dr Oscar Levy Volume Seventeen T.N.
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