Meier, Heinrich
Nietzsche's Legacy:
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226751979
- author:
- Meier, Heinrich
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 23 x 15.4 x 2.6 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- Professional & Vocational, Nonfiction, Philosophy,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Nietzsche's Legacy: A Reappraisal of Ecce Homo and The Antichrist Heinrich Meier offers a new interpretation of two of Nietzsche's most challenging works, Ecce Homo and The Antichrist. These twin books, long shrouded in controversy, are reevaluated as a pair meant to replace the abandoned Will to Power project. In this carefully written study, Meier recovers these works from their association with Nietzsche's later mental collapse, revealing them to be a lucid self-assessment of his philosophy. Ecce Homo and The Antichrist present both the highest affirmation of the "revaluation of all values" and the most resolute negation of Christianity. This complex interplay between affirmation and negation is at the heart of Nietzsche's Legacy, which offers a fresh understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole.