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

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

• ISBN13: 9780521631594
• ISBN10: 0521631599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to Nietzsche's own thought and most influential on later thinkers. 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 importance.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Chronology	xxiii
Further reading	xxvi
Note on the text	xxvii
The Gay Science	1	(10)
`Joke, Cunning and Revenge': Prelude in German Rhymes	11	(16)
Book One	27	(42)
Book Two	69	(40)
Book Three	109	(48)
Book Four: St Januarius	157	(42)
Book Five: We Fearless Ones	199	(50)
Appendix: Songs of Prince Vogelfrei	249	(12)
Index	261