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Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Ure, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0521760909
ISBN13: 9780521760904
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 23 2019
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms he communicates his central experience of overcoming pessimism and recovering the capacity to affirm joyfully the tragedy of life. On the basis of his experiments in living, Nietzsche articulates his most famous philosophical concepts and images: the death of God, the exercise of eternal recurrence, and the ideal of self-fashioning. This book explains the ancient and modern philosophical contexts that shape Nietzsche's central concern with the affirmation of life. It surveys Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole, explains the pivotal place of The Gay Science as the source of his ideal of tragic joy, and shows how he revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician.

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