{"product_id":"the-gay-science","title":"The Gay Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1882 and enlarged in 1887, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gay Science\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stands at a turning point in Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought. Written in a sequence of aphorisms, poems and brief philosophical reflections, it moves with restless freedom between art, morality, knowledge, religion and the conditions of a life well lived. Here Nietzsche gives memorable expression to the announcement that “God is dead”, while beginning to explore ideas that would become central to his later philosophy, including eternal recurrence and the creation of new values. The book’s voice is at once playful and unsettling: a thinker testing convictions, overturning certainties and refusing to separate intellectual courage from the experience of living.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmong Nietzsche’s most personal works, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gay Science\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes its title from the medieval tradition of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003egai saber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the art of the troubadours, and carries something of their spirit into philosophy. Its short, brilliantly turned passages invite readers to linger, disagree and return, while its underlying questions reach towards the nature of freedom, suffering, joy and self-creation. Positioned between \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDaybreak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it is both a culmination of Nietzsche’s early experiments in aphoristic writing and a threshold to the more visionary works that followed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I am thirsting for a composer who would learn my ideas from me and transpose them into his language.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Friedrich Nietzsche, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gay Science\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gay Science\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The Gay Science is one of Nietzsche’s most beautiful and important books.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Walter Kaufmann, translator’s introduction to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gay Science\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64185203884362,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/the-gay-science","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}