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The Joyful Wisdom (La Gaya Scienza)

English translation · Translated by Paul V. Cohn, Thomas Common and Maude Dominica Petre

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Health, recovery and the habits of thought supply the starting point for Nietzsche's philosophical reflections. In the preface, renewed energy after illness prompts him to examine how bodily conditions influence ideas about truth, happiness and the value of life. The volume combines numbered prose passages with a prelude in rhyme and an appendix of songs, allowing abrupt observations and comic turns to sit beside more extended arguments.

The middle passages turn toward praise, fame, political allegiance and the pressure to follow public opinion. Nietzsche distinguishes clear thinking from the desire to appear profound, and tests familiar claims about independence against people's attachment to the crowd.

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher whose critiques of religion and morality, and his ideas of the will to power and eternal recurrence, left a deep mark on twentieth-century thought. His late works, written in isolation, grew increasingly urgent before mental collapse ended his career.

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