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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Friedrich Nietzsche
Edited by Bernard Williams
Translated by Josefine Nauckhoff
Translated by Adrian Del Caro
SeriesCambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:305
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 154
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521636452
ClassificationsDewey:193
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 23 August 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His many publications include Problems of the Self (Cambridge University Press, 1973), Moral Luck (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1986), Shame and Necessity (University of California Press, 1993), and Making Sense of Humanity (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Reviews

'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