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By Will Durant

The tale of Civilization, quantity V: A historical past of civilization in Italy from 1304-1576. this can be the 5th quantity of the vintage, Pulitzer Prize-winning sequence.

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But they remain insightful and evocative. Satire concerns ideas and a tone, for Bakhtin, that challenge the status quo. He characterizes satire’s “carnival” sense of the world through fourteen possible elements, a list worth considering in relation to Nietzsche’s oeuvre. Satire, he writes, (1) has an increased comic element; (2) is unfettered by demands of verisimilitude and thus enjoys an “extraordinary freedom of plot and philosophical invention”; (3) makes bold use of the fantastic, the “creation of extraordinary situations for the provoking and testing of a philosophical idea, a discourse, a truth, embodied in the image of a wise 7 8 9 10 Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (New York: Atheneum, 1967), 223, 310.

9), signaling that Nietzsche’s work has been a contest between opposing outlooks. The antagonism prefigured in the book’s title further points toward Ecce Homo as satire. Aggressive denunciation is one of satire’s dominant and oldest forms, and the book’s title invokes the Christian model of humanity in order to present Nietzsche’s philosophy against it. The title also puts us in two historical periods, as Nietzsche applies a New Testament phrase to himself in the present. Hence the title inaugurates a series of temporal dislocations in Ecce Homo that will grow to include the classical world of Greece and Rome.

42 Conway writes: “In short, Ecce Homo must – and does – enact 36 38 39 40 41 42 Ridley, “Introduction,” xix, xiii. , xvii. 10). 8. (For an excellent reminder of Nietzsche’s fatalist position, see Brian Leiter, “Who is the ‘sovereign individual’? ) Ridley, “Introduction,” xix. , xxi. In another introduction to an English translation of Ecce Homo, Duncan Large focuses on the book’s “educative function,” a function meant to help show Nietzsche’s success at achieving genuine selfhood. Large does not consider Ecce Homo to “break new philosophical ground,” having instead “the character of an annunciation” to Nietzsche’s future work (“Introduction,” xv, xiv).

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