by Friedrich Nietzsche · Editorial Edaf, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441427808
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Immerse yourself in 'The Gay Science' by Friedrich Nietzsche, a work that summarizes the author's freethinking spirit. Nietzsche, freed from the obligation of life, delves with freshness into the realms of science, morality, and religion. Through a knowledge that has left seriousness behind, he reveals the hidden meaning in these fields. With playful thinking, Nietzsche breaks down themes such as the death of God and the eternal return, anticipating ideas that he will develop in later works, such as the figure of Zarathustra. This edition by Editorial Edaf, S.L., published in 2011, features the translation by José Carlos Mardomingo and the prologue by Agustín Izquierdo.
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.
