Nietzsche's Legacy

A reappraisal ofEcce HomoandTheAntichristwithin Nietzsche's oeuvre. Nietzsche's Legacytakes on the most challenging andmisunderstood works in Nietzsche's oeuvre to illuminate his view of what aphilosopher isand what constitutes a philosophic life. InterpretingEcceHomoandThe Antichristas twin books meant toreplace the abandonedWill to Powerproject, Heinrich Meierrecovers them from the stigma of Nietzsche's late mental collapse, showing that these works are, aboveall, a lucid self-assessment. The carefully written pair contains both the highest affirmation-the Yes of the "revaluation of all values"-and the most resolute negation-the No to Christianity. How the Yes and the No go together, how the relation between nature and politics is to be determined, how Nietzsche's intention is governing the political-philosophical double-face: this is the subject ofNietzsche's Legacy, which opens up a new understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole.