Nietzsche's Legacy

A reappraisal of Ecce Homo and The Antichrist within Nietzsches oeuvre. Nietzsche's Legacy takes on the most challenging and misunderstood works in Nietzsches oeuvre to illuminate his view of what a philosopher is and what constitutes a philosophic life. Interpreting Ecce Homo and The Antichrist as twin books meant to replace the abandoned Will to Power project, Heinrich Meier recovers them from the stigma of Nietzsches late mental collapse, showing that these works are, above all, a lucid self-assessment. The carefully written pair contains both the highest affirmationthe Yes of the revaluation of all valuesand the most resolute negationthe No to Christianity. How the Yes and the No go together, how the relation between nature and politics is to be determined, how Nietzsches intention is governing the political-philosophical double-face: this is the subject of Nietzsches Legacy, which opens up a new understanding of Nietzsches philosophy as a whole.