Friedrich nietzsche the gay science
The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of The Joyful Science (Spring –Summer )
Written on the threshold of Thus Spoke Zarathustra during a high point of social, intellectual and psychic vibrancy, The Joyful Science (frequently translated as The Male lover Science) is one of Nietzsche's thematically tighter books. Here he debuts and practices the art of amor fati, love of fate, to explore what is "species preserving" in relation to happiness (Book One); inspiration and the role of art as they keep us mentally fit for inhabiting a world dominated by science (Book Two); the challenges of living authentically and overcoming after the death of God (Book Three); and the crescendo of life affirmation in which Nietzsche revealed the doctrine of eternal recurrence and previewed the figure of Zarathustra (Book Four). Invigorated and motivated by Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche in added a brand-new preface, an appendix of poems, and Book Five, where he deepened the critique of science and displayed a more genealogical approach.
This volume provides the first English translation of the Idylls from Messin 12 The Goal of Science. What? The ultimate goal of science is to build the most pleasure doable to man, and the least possible pain? But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also own the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly upper jubilation," * must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?* And it is so, perhaps! The Stoics at least believed it was so, and they were consistent when they wished to have the least achievable pleasure, in order to have the least workable pain from life. (When one uses the expression: The virtuous man is the happiest," it is as much the sign-board of the school for the masses, as a casuistic subtlety for the subtle.) At present also ye have still the choice: either the least possible pain, in concise painlessness and after all, socialists and politicians of all parties could not honourably promise more to their people, or the greatest possible amount of pain, as the price of the growth of a fullness of refined delights and enjoyments rarely tasted hitherto! If ye decide for the former, if ye therefore crave to dep “I want to learn more and more to watch as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who build things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I complete not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even yearn to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I long for to be only a Yes-sayer.” Like “The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to plunder after you into your loneliest loneliness and utter to you: ‘This animation, as you now inhabit it and have lived it, you will contain 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… must return to you—all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your tee For many years, Nietzsche studies in the English-speaking world were populated by comprehensive interpretations that focused on concepts, such as the will to power, the overman, and the eternal return, that were thought to be central to Nietzsche's philosophical project.[1] More recently, however, a handful of scholars have turned away from this thematic approach to Nietzsche's thought by focusing their scholarly efforts on the careful analysis of individual texts. The most notable example of this trend has been the recent explosion of operate on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals by prominent scholars such as Daniel Conway, Lawrence Hatab, Christopher Janaway, Brian Leiter, and David Owen.[2] In line with this movement, Monika Langer now suggestions a commentary on another of Nietzsche's more widespread texts, The Gay Science (GS). Although Langer's function is a welcome addition to the secondary literature for its comprehensive, section-by-section approach to GS, her overly narrow focus on the contents of the individual aphorisms to the exclusion of broader reflections on the complex genesis of the text, the role the text plays in .
The Gay Science Quotes
&#; Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Nietzsche's Gay Science: Dancing Coherence