Nietzsche's Gay Science
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5770-5 (ISBN)
From philosophy undergraduates showing off in murky bars to Chidi's unforgettable monologue in TV sensation The Good Place, The Gay Science is one Nietzsche's most-quotable texts. But what do those soundbites actually mean? Robert Miner attends closely to the rhymes and aphorisms that make up Nietzsche’s The Gay Science – and make it so appealing yet so frequently misunderstood. 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 a second edition of The Gay Science in 1887, with a fifth book, 40 aphorisms composed after Zarathustra, a new preface and an appendix of songs.
Robert Miner is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, Texas. He is the author of Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy (Routledge, 2004), Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Vico, Genealogist of Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002) and Nietzsche and Montaigne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
ChronologyPreface
Beginnings1.1. Diving into The Gay Science: the first two aphorisms1.2. The place of The Gay Science in Nietzsche’s corpus1.3. The idea of gay science before Nietzsche1.4. A Prelude in German rhymes1.5. Strategies for reading aphorisms
The Gay Science I: A New Ethics of the Noble2.1. Noble and common2.2. New values beyond good and evil2.3. Sacrificing on altars to an unknown god2.4. Courage with no desire for honors2.5. Self-sufficiency that overflows and gives
The Gay Science II: Women, Artists and Art3.1. Artists in love3.2. Aphorisms on women3.3. On the souls of artists3.4. For and against art3.5. Art for the free spirit
The Gay Science III: Finding the Real Killers4.1. News for atheists4.2. Tombs and sepulchers4.3. An inside job?4.4. Maxims and a catechism: The Gay Science 154–275
The Gay Science IV: Affirming Life, Eternally5.1. The musicality of the Sanctus Januarius5.2. Negation5.3. Learning to love5.4. Life-Affirmation and ‘You Knowers’5.5. The eternal return in The Gay Science IV
Interlude: Preface to the 1887 The Gay Science
The Gay Science V: Nietzsche as Psychologist7.1. Toward new seas7.2. The problem of science7.3. Religious types: three different ones7.4. The psychology of the scholar
The Gay Science V: ‘We Fearless Ones.’ Nihilism at the Door8.1. Our question mark8.2. Dancing between reverence and suspicion8.3. An elliptical ending…8.4. ‘Sing me a new song’
Postlude: ‘The Story of the Next Two Centuries’ (?)
Glossary of Key TermsGuide to Further ReadingBibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-5770-3 / 1474457703 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-5770-5 / 9781474457705 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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