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The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft ) or occasionally translated as The Joyful Wisdom is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1882 and followed by a second edition, which was published after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil , in 1887. This substantial expansion includes a fifth book and an appendix of songs. It was noted by Nietzsche to be "the most personal of all [his] books", and contains the greatest number of poems in any of his published works.
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- Title
- La Gaia Scienza
- Language
- Italian
- Authors
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Publisher
- Adelphi
- Format
- Paperback
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Psychological Topics, Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Classics, Science, German Literature
- First published
- 1881
- Original title
- Die fröhliche Wiessenschaft
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft ) or occasionally translated as The Joyful Wisdom is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1882 and followed by a second edition, which was published after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil , in 1887. This substantial expansion includes a fifth book and an appendix of songs. It was noted by Nietzsche to be "the most personal of all [his] books", and contains the greatest number of poems in any of his published works.



