Nietzsche`s Legacy: `Ecce Homo` and `The Antichrist,` Two Books on Nature and Politics

A reappraisal of Ecce Homo and The Antichrist within Nietzsche`s oeuvre.Nietzsche`s Legacy takes on the most challenging and misunderstood works in Nietzsche`s 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 Nietzsche`s late mental collapse, showing that these works are, above all, 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 of Nietzsche`s Legacy, which opens up a new understanding of Nietzsche`s philosophy as a whole.