The Gay Science av Friedrich Nietzsche

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<b>The book Nietzsche called "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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>Most of the book was written just before <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i>, the last part five years later, after <i>Beyond Good and Evil</i>. 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.<br><br>Walter Kaufmann''s English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterpr