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Chapter 6 - The Selbstaufhebung of the Will to Truth

The Gay Science I–III

from Part II - The Dragon-Slaying Lion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2019

Matthew Meyer
Matthew Meyer
Affiliation:
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania
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The purpose of this chapter is to explain how Nietzsche continues to undermine the prejudices of morality in the first three chapters of The Gay Science. At the apex of this project is the death of God in the third chapter of The Gay Science. It is argued that the death of God marks the self-overcoming of the very will to truth that has animated the free spirit project since Human, All Too Human. The self-overcoming of the will to truth explains why Nietzsche can now celebrate art, in chapter four, in a way that both contrasts with the much more tempered discussion of art in chapter two of The Gay Science and recalls the position of The Birth of Tragedy.
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Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works
A Dialectical Reading
 , pp. 183 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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