The Gay Science

With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann

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Vintage
01 November 1988

Philosophy; History of Western philosophy

"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 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."

By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by: Walter Kaufmann
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 104mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9780394719856
ISBN 10: 0394719859
Pages: 95
Publication Date: 01 November 1988
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

[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. <br><br>-- Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction