TY - BOOK
T1 - Nietzsche's 'The Gay Science'
T2 - an introduction
AU - Ure, Michael Vincent
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Michael Ure 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book yet al so animportant work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms, he communicates his central experience of overcoming pessimism and recovering the capacity to affirm joyfully the tragedy of life. On the basis of his experiments in living, Nietzsche articulates his most famous philosophical concepts and images: The death of God, the exercise of eternal recurrence, and the ideal of self-fashioning. This book explains the ancient and modern philosophical contexts that shape Nietzsche’s central concern with the affirmation of life. It surveys Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole, explains the pivotal place of The Gay Science as the source of his ideal of tragic joy, and shows how he revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician.
AB - Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book yet al so animportant work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms, he communicates his central experience of overcoming pessimism and recovering the capacity to affirm joyfully the tragedy of life. On the basis of his experiments in living, Nietzsche articulates his most famous philosophical concepts and images: The death of God, the exercise of eternal recurrence, and the ideal of self-fashioning. This book explains the ancient and modern philosophical contexts that shape Nietzsche’s central concern with the affirmation of life. It surveys Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole, explains the pivotal place of The Gay Science as the source of his ideal of tragic joy, and shows how he revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131975761&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/9781139019354
DO - 10.1017/9781139019354
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85131975761
SN - 9780521760904
T3 - Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
BT - Nietzsche's 'The Gay Science'
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge UK
ER -