Ecce Homo

Author : Kent L. Brintnall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226074719

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Ecce Homo by Kent L. Brintnall Pdf

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon’s paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theory—Ecce Homo explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain. Acknowledging that representations of men confronting violence and pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenacity, Kent L. Brintnall also argues that they reveal the vulnerability of men’s bodies and open them up to eroticization. Locating the roots of our cultural fascination with male pain in the crucifixion, he analyzes the way narratives of Christ’s death and resurrection both support and subvert cultural fantasies of masculine power and privilege. Through stimulating readings of works by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, and more, Brintnall delineates the redemptive power of representations of male suffering and violence.

Author : Nicholas Martin,Duncan Large
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110391664

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Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo” by Nicholas Martin,Duncan Large Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889, but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared only in 1908. For much of the first century of its reception, Ecce Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a testament to its author’s incipient madness. This was hardly surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the ‘megalomaniacal’ self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and brazenly claims ‘I am not a man, I am dynamite’ as he attempts to explode one preconception after another in the Western philosophical tradition. In recent decades there has been increased interest in the work, especially in the English-speaking world, but the present volume is the first collection of essays in any language devoted to the work. Most of the essays are selected from the proceedings of an international conference held in London to mark the centenary of the first publication of Ecce Homo in 2008. They are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays. Contributors include established and emerging Nietzsche scholars from the UK and USA, Germany and France, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Author : Aaron Riches
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467445443

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Ecce Homo by Aaron Riches Pdf

Interacting with theologians throughout the ages, Riches narrates the development of the church’s doctrine of Christ as an increasingly profound realization that the depth of the difference between the human being and God is realized, in fact, only in the perfect union of divinity and humanity in the one Christ. He sets the apostolic proclamation in its historical, theological, philosophical, and mystical context, showing that, as the starting point of “orthodoxy,” it forecloses every theological attempt to divide or reduce the “one Lord Jesus Christ.”

Author : John Lister-Kaye
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786891464

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The Dun Cow Rib by John Lister-Kaye Pdf

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its creatures. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them. Threaded through his adventures - from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell, to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre - is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape.

Author : Sir John Robert Seeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPKT8

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Ecce Homo by Sir John Robert Seeley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916098535

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Ecce Homo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Steinbuch
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0819196088

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A Commentary on Nietzsche's Ecce Homo by Thomas Steinbuch Pdf

In this commentary on chapter one, "Why I am So Wise," of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, the author dispels the long-standing impression that Ecce Homo is an irrational book in which the madness that claimed Nietzsche only months after he began writing it had already begun its work. Ecce Homo, it is alleged, is not egotistical, or narcissistic, or megalomaniacal. It is not a work of madness. In his linear exposition of this first chapter, the author presents Nietzsche's revelation of the tragic fact that his very aliveness was in a state of being overwhelmed, consumed, by powerful unconscious emotion, the condition he called decadence. Nietzsche's madness may have caused him to lose perspective on the meaning of having dwelt in "a world of exalted and delicate things," as he writes of himself in Ecce, but the original experience of elevation that comes of an abundance of life, of a surplus of life, certainly was not pathological.

Author : Nicholas Martin,Duncan Large
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110246551

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Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo” by Nicholas Martin,Duncan Large Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889, but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared only in 1908. For much of the first century of its reception, Ecce Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a testament to its author’s incipient madness. This was hardly surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the ‘megalomaniacal’ self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and brazenly claims ‘I am not a man, I am dynamite’ as he attempts to explode one preconception after another in the Western philosophical tradition. In recent decades there has been increased interest in the work, especially in the English-speaking world, but the present volume is the first collection of essays in any language devoted to the work. Most of the essays are selected from the proceedings of an international conference held in London to mark the centenary of the first publication of Ecce Homo in 2008. They are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays. Contributors include established and emerging Nietzsche scholars from the UK and USA, Germany and France, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191605222

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Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled 'How To Become What You Are' passes under review all Nietzsche's previous works so that we, his 'posthumous' readers, can finally understand him aright, on his own terms. He reaches final reckonings with his many enemies - Richard Wagner, German nationalism, 'modern men' in general - and above all Christianity, proclaiming himself the Antichrist. Ecce Homo is the summation of an extraordinary philosophical career, a last great testament to Nietzsche's will.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241251867

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Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?' Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781387401512

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche's masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher's famous discussion of the phrase 'God is dead' as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity's definition of good and evil. Revised translation, 2017.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798572342949

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The Antichrist and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

The Antichrist: Is probably the most well-known work of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He used this book to speak on his disdain for organized religion. One of his most talked about and enduring lines from the book is 'God is dead.' He believed that people should not turn to traditional Christian values but more toward science or nationalism. Nietzsche's title, The Antichrist, had less to do with the Bible and more to do with his view of the 'slave morality' of Western Christianity.The Antichrist goes on to say that Christianity put weakness where virtue should be. He felt that the civilization was moved to feel sorry for people and that sentiment made people weaker. He felt the best course of action was strength. If people could be stronger through self-reliance and things that were tangible, then society as a whole could be stronger.Nietzsche believed that each person should make their own way through individual experience. He felt that this goal should not be an aspiration that a person should hope to achieve, but one that should be lived in daily life.Ecce Homo: In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - Schopenhauer, Wagner, Socrates, Christ - and predicts the cataclysmic impact of his 'forthcoming revelation of all values'. Both self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and strange, Ecce Homo gives the final, definitive expression to Nietzsche's main beliefs and is in every way his last testament.

Author : Nicholas D. More
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107050815

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Nietzsche's Last Laugh by Nicholas D. More Pdf

This book demonstrates that Nietzsche's autobiographical and much-maligned Ecce Homo is a sophisticated satire by which the thinker unifies his disparate corpus.

Author : Christopher Fynsk
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801481589

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Heidegger by Christopher Fynsk Pdf

Christopher Fynsk offers a sustained critical reading of works written by Martin Heidegger in the period 1927-1947. His guiding concerns are Heidegger's notions of human finitude and difference, which Fynsk first addresses through an analysis of the role played by Mitsein in Being and Time. This analysis in turn affords a critical perspective on Heidegger's own interpretive encounters with Nietzsche and Holderlin. For the paperback, Fynsk has added a new chapter on the recent controversy surrounding Heidegger's politics. Polemical in style, it seeks to define what is at stake in "the Heidegger affair" and points to some of the questions for philosophy and politics raised by the new legibility of Heidegger's political engagements.

Author : Anne T. Woollett,Yvonne Szafran,Alan Phenix
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606061121

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Drama and Devotion by Anne T. Woollett,Yvonne Szafran,Alan Phenix Pdf

Looks at the efforts of the J Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. This book documents the dramatic process of revealing the brilliance of a 16th-century masterpiece.