Nietzsche: The Gay Science
With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

A new translation and edition of this important and influential statement of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Bernard Williams (Edited by), Josefine Nauckhoff (Translated by), Adrian Del Caro (Translated by)

9780521636452, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 August 2001

305 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.505 kg

'The Gay Science deserves prominent attention from philosophers who study Nietzsche's works, and indeed from anyone with an interest in moral psychology and the origin of our values. this new edition is a great achievement, which should for most purposes supersede Kaufmann as the standard translation, and which will have an important role to play in bringing this work into prominence and in furthering the study of Nietzsche in the English-speaking world.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as 'perhaps my most personal book', when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find in it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views which were most central to Nietzsche's own thought and which have been most influential on later thinkers. These include the death of God, the problem of nihilism, the role of truth, falsity and the will-to-truth in human life, the doctrine of the eternal recurrence, and the question of the proper attitude to adopt toward human suffering and toward human achievement. This volume presents the work in a new translation by Josefine Nauckhoff, with an introduction by Bernard Williams that elucidates the work's main themes and discusses their continuing philosophical importance.

Joke, cunning and revenge: prelude in German rhymes
Book one
Book two
Book three
Book four: St Januarius
Book five: we fearless ones
Appendix: songs of Prince Vogelfrei.

Subject Areas: History of Western philosophy [HPC]