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The Gay Science - With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (1974)
Front Cover Book Details
Author
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Walter Kaufmann
Friedrich Nietzsche
Publication Date 1974
Format Paperback (185 x 111 mm)
Publisher Vintage Books
Plot
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.

Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published.

Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.
Personal Details
Collection Status In Collection
Index 686
Read It No
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Product Details
LoC Classification B3313.F72E5 1974b
Dewey 193
ISBN 0394719859
Edition [1st ed
Cover Price $12.00
Nr of Pages 396
First Edition No
Rare No
Notes
"This translation is based on the second edition of Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, published in 1887." Includes bibliographical references.
Credits
Translator Walter Kaufmann