Contribution to Book
“Ecrasez l’infâme!” Nietzsche's Revolution for All and (N)one
Nietzsche's "Ecco Homo"
(2021)
Abstract
Nietzsche’s hyperbolic rhetoric in Ecce Homo has been dismissed as
megalomaniacal excess or a sign of his impending madness. By contrast, this
essay argues it is essential to Nietzsche’s autobiography, which may be more
properly read as the manifesto of his revolutionary corpus. The crucial difference
between Ecce Homo and other manifestos, however, is Nietzsche’s obsession
with the proper performative articulation of himself, rather than his readers.
The irretrievably unique character of the revolution he advocates, then, is a
movement that, like his Zarathustra, is simultaneously a revolution for “all”
and “none”, and entirely because it is a revolution/revelation ultimately only
of “one”.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Editor
Nicholas Martin and Duncan Large
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
ISBN
9783110246544
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246551-018
Citation Information
C. Heike Schotten. "“Ecrasez l’infâme!” Nietzsche's Revolution for All and (N)one" BerlinNietzsche's "Ecco Homo" (2021) p. 279 - 299 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/heike_schotten/33/