by Friedrich Nietzsche · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070325405
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«Le gai savoir» is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Gallimard in paperback (384 pages, in French).
A capital work of Nietzsche's thought, it brings together aphorisms, poems and reflections that question the philosophy, religion and morality of his time. Against philosophies that value peace, passive happiness or definitive states, it proposes a way of thinking linked to health, growth, power and life, rather than to the search for an abstract truth.
Work originally published in German as Die fröhliche Wissenschaft in 1882; this French edition by Gallimard belongs to the Folio essais collection (no. 17), with a translation by Pierre Klossowski.
For philosophy readers and Nietzsche scholars who want a French paperback edition of one of his central works.
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.
