by Friedrich Nietzsche · M.E · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449500466
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«La gaya ciencia» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by M.E. Editores in paperback (271 pages, in Spanish).
In «La gaya ciencia», Nietzsche combines aphorisms and reflections of a poetic tone to address morality, truth, knowledge and religion from a joyful and critical wisdom, far from dogmatism. The work invites a more vital way of living and thinking, and is considered a precursor to «Así habló Zaratustra».
Translation by Luis Díaz Marín, with an introduction by Enrique López Castellón. Collection Clásicos de siempre, no. 46. Original title: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (1882).
Suitable for philosophy readers, especially those interested in nineteenth-century German thought and in Nietzsche's work.
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.
