by Friedrich Nietzsche · 10/18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264003393
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«Le gai savoir» (La gaya scienza) is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by 10/18 in paperback (439 pages, in French).
Philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche in which the «death of God» is announced and the idea of eternal recurrence is formulated. It brings together aphorisms, poems and reflections on art, morality and knowledge; Nietzsche considered it his most personal book.
The book was originally published in 1882; an expanded second edition appeared in 1887. This French edition includes the translation and introduction by Pierre Klossowski.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century philosophy and the evolution of Nietzsche's thought.
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.
