Written late in 1888, only weeks before Nietzsche's complete mental collapse, Ecce Homo is an invaluable summary of the work and conflicts of his life. It is a final statement of his position as philosopher, psychologist and Anti-Christ; it is a proclamation of the coming revaluation of all standards; and it sets the tragic philosophy of life and the Christian religion in uncompromising opposition to one another. Upon these elements there is laid a particular and peculiar pathos - the pathos which gives this book a tone unique even within the corpus of Nietzsche's own writings.