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Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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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. 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. 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. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.
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RedJhon
Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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Your daily dose of Nietzsche

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RedJhon
Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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Keep those Aphorisms coming my man😋

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RedJhon
Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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Guess we're in this age?

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RedJhon
Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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Absolutely love his no BS straightforward attitude

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RedJhon
Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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My new reading list. What do y'all think??

Please recommend me more books haha

SW-T Liked Thinking, Fast and Slow. You‘ve got an interesting selection of titles there. 😊 4y
RedJhon @SW-T thank you!😄 Have you any other suggestions for me? 4y
SW-T Fiction? Nonfiction? Reading is subjective so these may or may not interest you, but here goes. Fiction: Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler, or 4y
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SW-T A fun, and in my opinion underrated, fiction read 4y
SW-T Historical fiction: The Monk, Matthew Lewis, anything by Thomas Hardy, or 4y
SW-T Nonfiction reads The Black Count, Tom Reiss, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, The Story of Sushi, Trevor Corson, or 4y
SW-T Cookbooks Jerusalem, Yotam Ottolenghi or 4y
RedJhon Wow thanks for the wonderful suggestions. Appreciate you giving your time for this😄 4y
SW-T @RedJhon Most welcome! I don‘t read a lot of horror but Grady Hendrix is good and The Arena by Rafi Kohan is good if you‘re a sports fan. Happy reading to you! 🙂 4y
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RedJhon
Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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He used such strong language that it totally caught me off guard!! Absolutely brilliant 😋

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Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs | Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff
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"German sounds coarse, sylvan, and hoarse, as if it had originated in smoky rooms and outlandish districts."