Nietzsche's Gay Science

ISBN-13: 9781474457705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Texas) M Baylor University Robert (Professor of Philosophy

Opis

Robert Miner attends closely to the rhymes and aphorisms that comprise Nietzsche's Gay Science a text more often quoted than understood. Tracking Nietzsche's mixture of subtle argumentation, memorable images and provocative rhetoric, Miner opens up multiple ways of interpreting the text and applying it to our own circumstances. Presupposing no prior knowledge of Nietzsche, Miner begins with the 1882 edition the first to announce the 'death of God', amor fati and eternal recurrence. He also illuminates the significance of Nietzsche's decision to publish in 1887 a second edition of Gay Science with a fifth Book, 40 aphorisms composed after Zarathustra, a new Preface and an Appendix of Songs.While the primary text is emphasised, you'll also become familiar with scholarly debates about Nietzsche's intentions in the Gay Science. New and seasoned readers alike will benefit from the book.

Spis treści

Chronology; Abbreviations; Preface; Works by Nietzsche; 1. Beginnings; 1.1. Diving into The Gay Science: the first two aphorisms; 1.2. The place of The Gay Science in Nietzsche’s corpus; 1.3. The idea of gay science before Nietzsche; 1.4. A Prelude in German rhymes; 1.5. Strategies for reading aphorisms; 2. The Gay Science I: A New Ethics of the Noble; 2.1. Noble and common; 2.2. New values beyond good and evil; 2.3. Sacrificing on altars to an unknown god; 2.4. Courage with no desire for honors; 2.5. Self-sufficiency that overflows and gives; 3. The Gay Science II: Women, Artists and Art; 3.1. Artists in love; 3.2. Aphorisms on women; 3.3. On the souls of artists; 3.4. For and against art; 3.5. Art for the free spirit; 4. The Gay Science III: Finding the Real Killers; 4.1. News for atheists; 4.2. Tombs and sepulchers; 4.3. An inside job?; 4.4. Maxims and a catechism: The Gay Science 154–275; 5. The Gay Science IV: Affirming Life, Eternally; 5.1. The musicality of the Sanctus Januarius; 5.2. Negation; 5.3. Learning to love; 5.4. Life-Affirmation and ‘You Knowers’; 5.5. The eternal return in The Gay Science IV; 6. Interlude: Preface to the 1887 The Gay Science; 7. The Gay Science V: Nietzsche as Psychologist; 7.1. Toward new seas; 7.2. The problem of science; 7.3. Religious types: three different ones; 7.4. The psychology of the scholar; 8. The Gay Science V: ‘We Fearless Ones.’ Nihilism at the Door; 8.1. Our question mark; 8.2. Dancing between reverence and suspicion; 8.3. An elliptical ending…; 8.4. ‘Sing me a new song’; 9. Postlude: ‘The Story of the Next Two Centuries’ (?); Glossary of Key Terms; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.