Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Contents:

• THE GAY SCIENCE
• THE GAY SCIENCE
• THE GAY SCIENCE BY MICHEL FOUULTTHE GAY SCIENCE BY MICHEL FOUULTTHE GAY SCIENCE BY MICHEL FOUULTTHE GAY SCIENCE BY MICHEL FOUULTTHE GAY SCIENCE BY MICHEL FOUULT
• NIETZSCHE'S THE GAY SCIENCE

THE GAY SCIENCE

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THE GAY SCIENCE

Ecce Homo.

Py is said to be the virtue of the gay lady. The more universally and unndnally an dividual, or the thought of an dividual, n operate, so much more homogeneo and so much lower mt be the mass that is there operated upon; while unter-strivgs betray ternal unter-requirements, which also want to gratify and realise themselv.

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Homo poeta.

—Among the Europeans of to-day there are not lackg those who may ll themselv homels on a way which is at once a distctn and an honour; is by them that my secret wisdom and gaya scienza is pecially to be laid to heart!

"You are merry lovers and false and gay,. The Gay Science on JSTOR. Nietzsche's alln to the 'Provenl' the tle (and echoed the subtle) of <The Gay Science> vok the troubadour’s art (or 'technic') of poetic song, an art at once secret, anonymo and th nonsubjective, but also cludg logil disputatn, for which is the mol, and prisg, perhaps above all, the important ial of actn (and pathos) at a distance: l’amour lota.

NIETZSCHE'S THE GAY SCIENCE

Beyond the Provençal character and atmosphere of the troubadour, Nietzsche’s nceptn of a joyful science, Nietzsche's 'gay' science also adumbrat a crique of science unrstood as the llective ial of scholarship, cludg classil philology as much as logic, mathematics, and physics. Seen om this perspective, Nietzsche's "gay" science ploys this “science” on his own behalf, takg this as far as the nsummate promise of his troubadour’s (even Catharist) ial of self-overg.

Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a eply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. It surveys Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole, explas the pivotal place of The Gay Science as the source of his ial of tragic joy, and shows how he reviv an ancient nceptn of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician. It mak a persuasive se for The Gay Science to be regnised as a key philosophil text, which reviv an ancient nceptn of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician.

‘Michael Ure’s troductn to Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science is a wele ntributn to the sendary lerature. The book will serve as a fe troductory gui to advanced unrgraduat and graduate stunts, and is an tertg ntributn s own right to the scholarly work on The Gay Science.