Nietzsche's 1888 autobiographical work — written weeks before his mental collapse — with chapter titles 'Why I Am So Wise,' 'Why I Am So Clever,' 'Why I Write Such Good Books,' and 'Why I Am a Destiny' — simultaneously the most grandiose and most self-aware philosophical autobiography ever written.
Provides Nietzsche's own reading of his entire philosophical development — and its megalomania ('I am not a man, I am dynamite') is inseparable from a genuine philosophical claim: that the revaluation of all values that Nietzsche is performing is the most important event in human history since the emergence of Christianity.
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