Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Contents:

• THE GAY SCIENCE; WH A PRELU RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS
• THE GAY SCIENCE
• THE GAY SCIENCE: WH A PRELU GERMAN RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS
• 6 - THE GAY SCIENCE
• PDF DOWNLOAD THE GAY SCIENCE EBOOK, EPUB [PDF]
• THE GAY SCIENCE
• NIETZSCHE'S THE GAY SCIENCE
• NIETZSCHE: THE GAY SCIENCE WH A PRELU GERMAN RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS

THE GAY SCIENCE; WH A PRELU RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS

In the retrospective valuatn of his work which appears "Ecce Homo" the thor himself observ wh tth that the fourth book, "Sanct Januari, " serv pecial attentn: "The whole book is a gift om the Sat, and the troductory vers exprs my gratu for the most wonrful month of January that I have ever spent.

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. Homo poeta.

THE GAY SCIENCE: WH A PRELU GERMAN RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS

—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,.

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Nietzsche’s The Gay Science should be regard as central to his ovre for a number of reasons. The Gay Science also ntas work moral psychology of the hight sophistitn.

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The fal Book Five of The Gay Science reprents the fully mature Nietzsche ntent and style, vers some of the same ground to the Third Essay of the Genealogy, and n valuably be read njunctn wh the latter, as Nietzsche himself dit. Nckhoff succeeds lighteng the touch and quickeng the pace, a great service to the English-language rear of Nietzsche, and highly appropriate the se of The Gay Science particular.

THE GAY SCIENCE

The poem which ends the book ntas the l: Let dance every manner, ee — so shall be our art’s banner, And our science — shall be gay! It is eful to have an explanatn of the tle The Gay Science, which om ‘gaya scienza’ or ‘gai saber’, referrg to the art of song of the medieval troubadours.

The gayns is lightns and joy; and ‘science’ here is Wissenschaft, which vers rigoro study of the humani as well as what we would now ll the natural scienc. Williams is helpful as to the book’s character: jt as the troubadours posssed not so much a body of rmatn as an art, so Nietzsche’s ‘gay science’ do not the first place nsist of a doctre, a theory or body of knowledge.

The Gay Science is a llectn of numbered aphorisms of varyg lengths, which, unlike the Genealogy, do not even pretend to be lear say form. As he went on, Nietzsche rorted more to the effects of shock than he do The Gay Science, whose mood liv up to Nietzsche’s aims for , at least by parison wh many of his other works.

NIETZSCHE'S THE GAY SCIENCE

But to read sectn 344 of The Gay Science, Book Five is to fd someone not so much passnately terted analysg what tth is as keenly aware of how firmly we are wedd to tth as a value, perhaps even advertently as a moral value, certaly an unndnal one. The Gay Science serv proment attentn om philosophers who study Nietzsche’s works, and ed om anyone wh an tert moral psychology and the orig of our valu.

NIETZSCHE: THE GAY SCIENCE WH A PRELU GERMAN RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS

om Lk to The Gay Science.

Summary IntroductnThe Gay Science (Die öhliche Wissenschaft) was origally published four parts or books, wh a prelu German rhym 1882; a fifth part, together wh an appendix of songs and a preface, was add and published 1887.