The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
By Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Translator)




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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 untContinue
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback 416 Pages
- Edition: 1ST
- ISBN-10: 0394719859
- ISBN-13: 9780394719856
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jan 12, 1974
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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This is philosophy at its most exuberant - it's a celebration, a condemnation- and everything in between.
This carefully constructed collection of aphorisms bracketed by poetry is one of the seminal works of Nietzsche and - love him or hate him, you can't be indifferent to him. His thoughts a ... (continue)
This is philosophy at its most exuberant - it's a celebration, a condemnation- and everything in between.
This carefully constructed collection of aphorisms bracketed by poetry is one of the seminal works of Nietzsche and - love him or hate him, you can't be indifferent to him. His thoughts are always provocative and often insightful (yeah, yeah, except when dealing with women.) But it's a joy to read from cover to cover. (And it puts paid to the popular misconception that Nietzsche was a proto-Nazi.)
A definite must have for any philoso-phile.
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