Ecce Homo
How One Becomes What One Is
Nietzsche wrote Ecce Homo in the autumn of 1888, weeks before his collapse, as a review of his own life and books, with chapter titles including Why I Am So Wise and Why I Write Such Good Books. It is part self-mythology, part genuine retrospect on each of his works, and part settling of accounts with Wagner, with Germany and with Christianity. The comedy and the megalomania are hard to separate, which is a large part of the point.
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Angela Hobbs
Nietzsche wants a style, or rather styles, of becoming. So Nietzsche’s style is absolutely an intrinsic part of his meaning here. The form is part of the meaning in just the way it was for Heraclitus. Nietzsche is interested in other Presocratics too, but it is particularly Heraclitus who inspires him. To get a sense of how the Presocratics went on inspiring people, in both form and content, have a look at Ecce Homo.
Interview · October 2015
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