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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 04, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Ecce homo](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqssma1rcbkm5j2h89vbbqek/editions/2026-09-06-html-v1/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260910%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260910T220021Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=75ab19e859ee7f3314422733cfa33de1be54a32dc55d951cd224b9f7e520ff08) ## About this work “How one becomes what one is”: with this provocative subtitle, Friedrich Nietzsche opens one of his most personal and confrontational works. Ecce homo is at once an intellectual autobiography, a reckoning with his own books, and a declaration of philosophical war. Nietzsche revisits The Birth of Tragedy, the Untimely Meditations, Human, All Too Human, Dawn, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Case of Wagner, describing their origins, ambitions, and conflicts. Across these pages he challenges idealism, Christianity, conventional morality, German culture, academic historicism, and the worship of supposedly absolute values. His voice is proud, playful, severe, and startlingly intimate. Philosophy becomes a demanding life in the heights: an effort to face difficult truths, expose the hidden history of ideals, and affirm existence without comforting illusions. This Publica.now Classics edition includes a new typographic cover and publisher opening and closing pages. Sample ## Take a look inside Ecce homo Cómo se llega a ser lo que se es Prólogo 1 Como preveo que dentro de poco tendré que dirigirme a la humanidad presentándole la más grave exigencia que jamás se le ha hecho, me parece indispensable decir quién soy yo. En el fondo sería lícito saberlo ya: pues no he dejado de «dar testimonio» de mí. Mas la desproporción entre la grandeza de mi tarea y la pequeñez de mis contemporáneos se ha puesto de manifiesto en el hecho de que ni me han oído ni tampoco me han visto siquiera. Yo vivo de mi propio crédito; ¿acaso es un mero prejuicio que yo vivo? Me basta hablar con cualquier «persona culta» de las que en verano vienen a la Alta Engadina para convencerme de que yo no vivo. En estas circunstancias existe un deber contra el cual se rebelan en el fondo mis hábitos y aún más el orgullo de mis instintos, a saber, el deber de decir: ¡Escuchadme, pues yo soy tal y tal. ¡Sobre todo, no me confundáis con otros! 2 Por ejemplo, yo no soy en modo alguno un espantajo, un monstruo de moral; yo soy incluso una naturaleza antitética de esa especie de hombres venerada hasta ahora como virtuosa. Dicho entre nosotros, a mí me parece que justo esto forma parte de mi orgullo. Yo soy un discípulo del filósofo Dioniso, preferiría ser un sátiro antes que un santo. Pero léase este escrito. Tal vez haya conseguido expresar esa antítesis de un modo jovial y afable, tal vez no tenga este escrito otro sentido que ése. La última cosa que yo pretendería sería «mejorar» a la humanidad. Yo no establezco ídolos nuevos, los viejos van a aprender lo que significa tener pies de barro. Derribar ídolos («ídolos» es mi palabra para decir… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fecce-homo) The sample continues in the full work. [ #autobiography ](/search?query=autobiography) [ #self-analysis ](/search?query=self-analysis) [ #morality ](/search?query=morality) [ #culture ](/search?query=culture) [ #nihilism ](/search?query=nihilism) [ #existentialism ](/search?query=existentialism) [ #dionysian ](/search?query=dionysian) [ #apollonian ](/search?query=apollonian) [ #will to power ](/search?query=will+to+power) ## Reviews No reviews yet. 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