The Joyful Wisdom
Translated by Thomas Common, Paul V. Cohn, Maude D. Petre
7h 7m
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*The Gay Science* (or *Joyful Wisdom*) is Nietzsche's most lyric major work — five Books of aphorisms framed by a *Prelude in German Rhymes* and the *Songs of Prince Vogelfrei*. Section 125 introduces the madman in the marketplace with his lantern crying "God is dead!"; section 341, "The Greatest Weight," first formulates the eternal recurrence. Book V was added in 1887, four years before Nietzsche's collapse, and contains some of his sharpest late writing on truth, science, and the conditions of the future.
