The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
$22.43
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1988
Summary
The book Nietzsche called “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 intel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394719856 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0394719859 |
| Author: | Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1988 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 173mm x 105mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche’s thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art.” —Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction
About The Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.
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