Thomas H. Brobjer

Nietzsche's 'Ecce Homo' and the Revaluation of All Values (eBook, PDF)

Dionysian Versus Christian Values

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the standard interpretation of Nietzsche's last published work, Ecce Homo, as frivolous autobiography, Thomas H. Brobjer provides an original and detailed analysis of Ecce Homo as fundamental to Nietzsche's unfinished masterwork on the revaluation of all values.

Arguing that Ecce Homo laid the foundations for his planned four-volume work on values, Brobjer draws together the intentions and motivations behind Nietzsche's late work to create a new narrative on it. He situates this period in the desire to undermine the system of Christian values that Nietzsche believed were unchecked as the standard moral gauge for his time. To engage in this project, Brobjer shows that it was essential for Nietzsche to explore the self and life-denying qualities of a Christian system of values within a broader framework of ideas about morality, altruism, egotism, pessimism, humility and pride.

By fully outlining the context of Ecce Homo, Brobjer provides a complete corrective to its reception as a self-referential and eccentric text of little philosophical significance, enabling a new understanding within the history of philosophy and Nietzsche's oeuvre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350193758
• Artikelnr.: 62084444

Autorenporträt

Thomas H. Brobjer is Professor of Intellectual History at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has previously published Nietzsche's Ethics of Character (1995), Nietzsche and the 'English': The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy (2008), Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography (2008) and Nietzsche's 'Ecce Homo' and the Revaluation of All Values (2021).