by Friedrich Nietzsche · Ediciones Akal, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446017806
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The Gay Science is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche, published in 1882. In this book, Nietzsche explores themes such as morality, truth, knowledge, and human existence, using a fragmentary and aphoristic style. The work is characterized by its critique of traditional metaphysics and its defense of a vitalistic and affirmative perspective on life. This edition of Akal, belonging to the Básica de Bolsillo collection, offers a careful translation and an accessible format to bring this fundamental work of Nietzschean thought to a wider audience.
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.
