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Nietzsche: The Gay Science With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

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Edited by
Bernard Williams
, University of Oxford
Translated by
Josefine Nauckhoff
, Wake Forest University, North Carolina,
Adrian Del Caro
Published 2001

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Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as 'perhaps my most personal book', when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find in it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views which were most central to Nietzsche's own thought and which have been most influential on later thinkers. These include the death of God, the problem of nihilism, the role of truth, falsity and the will-to-truth in human…

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  • This is one of Nietzsche's most important and influential philosophical works, widely taught to undergraduates
  • Introduction and notes by Bernard Williams, a distinguished philosopher and pre-eminent Nietzsche scholar
  • We think this edition can match the Kaufmann (Vintage) edition on quality of translation (it corrects several errors) and it easily outstrips it on quality of introduction and annotation

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