Vol. 7 — October 2026
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Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche · English

Ecce Homo, subtitled How One Becomes What One Is, is Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, written in late 1888, shortly before his mental collapse,…

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Ecce Homo, subtitled How One Becomes What One Is, is Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, written in late 1888, shortly before his mental collapse, and first published in 1908. In chapters with defiant titles such as Why I Am So Wise and Why I Write Such Excellent Books, he reviews his life, his habits, and each of his earlier works, ending with Why I Am a Fatality. This volume, the seventeenth of the Oscar Levy English edition (1911), gives Anthony M. Ludovici's translation with his introduction, followed by a selection of Nietzsche's poetry, including songs, epigrams, and the Dionysus-Dithyrambs, in versions by several translators.

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