by Friedrich Nietzsche · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423974931
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The Gay Science is a fundamental work by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, published between 1882 and 1887. In this book, Nietzsche addresses the great themes of his philosophy, starting from the need for a knowledge that overcomes the limitations of scientific methodology and arises from intuition and life. The author proclaims the death of God, a symbol of a morality that has led to nihilism, and calls for a new generation of men and philosophers to open paths to knowledge and explore in contact with nature, free spirits who advocate the will to life, action and knowledge. To this end, he calls for a new ethic and a new aesthetic, based on vitalism. Through his aphoristic style, Nietzsche offers a suggestive and illuminating analysis that reveals more through poetry than through logic, stimulating intuitive knowledge and activating the reader's thought.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
