The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394719859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 396 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. 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 untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. He is the first philosopher to
"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. For it is a work of art."-- Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction . And yet it is complete in itself
Beware non-Kaufmann Kindle version I love Amazon, but you have to be careful about the way very different versions of a book sometimes wind up on the same sales page with their reader reviews mixed together. At the time I am writing, the page for the Walter Kaufmann translation of the Gay Science lists a Kindle edition for 99 cents, but that. It more like a collection of Nietzsche's random thoughts and poems Amazon Customer OK. This book is weird. It more like a collection of Nietzsche's random thoughts and poems. But if you slog through it, you will be rewarded at the end. Like Plato, in his Republic (which I LOVED), he finishes with a grand flourish. This is also the book where Nietzsche makes his famous statement, "God is d. Nice to read for pleasure. matthew am I did like this book but i didn't really find that he was presenting arguments , it was more a compilation of personal thoughts. I found the reading pretty easy. I did enjoy reading it and i recommend it for "To read for pleasure".