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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Mass Market Paperback – January 12, 1974
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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.
- Print length396 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVintage
- Publication dateJanuary 12, 1974
- Dimensions4.12 x 0.91 x 6.85 inches
- ISBN-100394719859
- ISBN-13978-0394719856
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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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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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- Publisher : Vintage; This translation based on second edition of Die frohliche Wissenshaft, published 1887. (January 12, 1974)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 396 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0394719859
- ISBN-13 : 978-0394719856
- Item Weight : 7 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.12 x 0.91 x 6.85 inches
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- #3 in Philosophy Aesthetics
- #20 in Free Will & Determinism Philosophy
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This may be the first book I am reading 'from cover to cover' on a Kindle, and the experience is rewarding. There are several things which are annoying about Kindle, but one of the very best aspects is the way it handles footnotes. Click on a footnote number, and it immediately takes you not only to the page where that note appears, but it puts the note at the top of the page. This is something no hard copy can do. The other side of the coin is that it suffers from Kindle's difficulty in handling bilingual texts. It takes a whole lot of jiggery pokery to have the German and English versions of the poems to come out side by side. I'm not even sure it's possible. Fortunately, the poems are numbered, for those who don't know German.
Note that some of Kaufmann's Nietzsche books are protected from copying, which is hugely annoying when you are writing papers, and you want an accurate quote. This one has no such prohibition. I am fond of Kaufmann's translations, and the Cambridge University Press edition is not available on Kindle, so this is the one to get. Avoid the cheap or free versions. What is listed under the Cambridge Kindle is NOT the translation published by Cambridge.
One general comment about Kindle on the PC. It would be really nice if one could open multiple Kindle windows. That way, you could have the English translation and the original German of Nietzsche's works open, side by side. Of course, you can always open the German in you Kindle device and prop it up alongsize your monitor.
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Down Going Limerick
Zarathustra is now down going
And so he speaks in rhyme:
The madman said, "God is dead.
Where is he? Is it we who killed a lie?"
Now I Exhort You to Love What is Most Distant, to
Dionysus Against the Crucified.
Burn Your Ships and move to Inland Deserts
Onward--To the Great Noontide,
For The Twilight of the Idols Approaches,
And The Overman's Time is Well Nigh.
At Last Behold the Higher Man--
Whom With Hammer Doth Philosophize:
"You yourself are this Will to Power,
and nothing else besides!"
Now Completely Drunk With Laugher,
And Unafraid to Die
The Higher Man Declares: Amor Fati!
Finally Dionysus Will Fly!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra in His Down Going
Of the Innocence of Becoming from on High.
"Together, Apollo and Dionysus unite
Against the Crucified."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Sorcerer unpursed his lips
laying his flute beside him, and sighed.
One way of looking at Luther and his intervention is that Luther was a "Beta" male. He didn't understand that power, in order to maintain itself as genuine authority, has to exert itself with in subtle ways. Luther's efforts therefore made the Church's influence appear cruder and more harshly defined. This was the means by which he stripped the Church of power -- by defining power too narrowly, and by not understanding that authority can only develop as a feature of power over a long time. Instead, Luther only understood power much as a "Beta" male understands it, that is, as something to be grabbed at, and imposed by force, rather than as something that gradually develops, along with the relationships that allow it to justify itself.
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Reviewed in India on March 7, 2024
The best way to get acquainted with Nietzsche is to read him direct:
The Greatest Weight. -"What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again - and you with it, speck of dust!
-Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god, and never had I heard anything more divine!" If this thought were to gain possession of you it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and everything, "Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?", would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed you would have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal conformation and seal? (book IV: 341)