The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

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by  Friedrich Nietzsche

VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, March 1974
Copyright © 1974 by Random House, Inc.
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Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canda
Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Random House, Inc., in 1974.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
The gay science.
“This translation is based on the second edition of
Die fröouhliche Wissenschaft, published in 1887.”
1. Philosophy. 2. Man. 3 Religion—Philosophy
4. Power (Philosophy) 5. Ethics. I. Kaufmann,
Walter Arnold, tr. II. Title
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MY JOYFUL SOPHIA
Abbreviations
BWN: Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Translated and Edited, with
Commentaries, by Walter Kaufmann. The Modern Library,
Random House, New York, 1968. This volume contains The Birth
of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The
Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo, as well as additional selections.
VPN: The Portable Nietzsche, Selected and Translated, with an
Introduction, Prefaces, and Notes by Walter Kaufmann. The
Viking Press, New York, 1954. This volume contains Thus Spoke
Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Nietzsche
contra Wagner, as well as additional selections.
Kaufmann: Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist,
Antichrist. Third Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1968, and Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1968.
Nietzsche Bibliography on pp. 477-502.
: Arabic figures after these three abbreviations refer to pages in
NOTE
these editions.
The Will to Power, Edited, with Commentary, by Walter Kaufmann,
Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1968, is cited by
referring to the numbers of the 1067 notes.
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Abbreviations
Translator’s Introduction
Nietzsche’s Preface for the Second Edition
“Joke, Cunning, and Revenge”:
Prelude in German Rhymes
1. Invitation,
2. My Happiness,
3. Undaunted,
4. Dialogue,
5. To the Virtuous,
6. Worldly Wisdom,
7. Vademecum—Vadetecum,
8. Shedding the Third Skin,
9. My Roses,
10. Scorn,
11. The Proverb Speaks,
12. To a Light-Lover,
13. For Dancers,
14. The Good Man,
15. Rust,
16. Up,
17. The Maxim of the Brute,
18. Narrow Souls,
19. The Involuntary Seducer,
20. For your Consideration,
21. Against Airs,
22. Man and Woman,
23. Interpretation,
24. Medicine for Pessimists,
25. Request,
26. My Hardness,
27. The Wanderer,
28. Consolation for Beginners,
29. The Egoism of the Stars,
30. The Neighbor,
31. The Disguised Saint,
32. The Unfree Man,
33. The Solitary,
34. Seneca et hoc genus omne,
35. Ice,
36. Juvenilia,
37. Caution,
38. The Pious Retort,
39. In the Summer,
40. Without Envy,
41. Heraclitean,
42. Principle of the Overly Refined,
43. Admonition,
44. The Thorough Who Get to the Bottom of Things,
45. Forever,
46. Judgments of the Weary,
47. Decline,
48. Against the Laws,
49. The Sage Speaks,
50. Lost His Head,
51. Pious Wishes,
52. Writing with One’s Feet,
53. Human, All Too Human: A Book,
54. To My Reader,
55. Realistic Painters,
56. Poet’s Vanity,
57. Choosy Taste,
58. A Crooked Nose,
59. The Pen is Stubborn,
60. Higher Men,
61. The Skeptic Speaks,
62. Ecce Homo,
63. Star Morals,
BOOK ONE
1. The teachers of the purpose of existence,
2. The intellectual conscience,
3. Noble and common,
4. What preserves the species,
5. Unconditional duties,
6. Loss of dignity,
7. Something for the industrious,
8. Unconscious virtues,
9. Our eruptions,
10. A kind of atavism,
11. Consciousness,
12. On the aim of science,
13. On the doctrine of the feeling of power,
14. The things people call love,
15. From a distance,
16. Over the footbridge,
17. Finding motives for our poverty,
18. The pride of classical antiquity,
19. Evil,
20. The dignity of folly,
21. To the teachers of selfishness,
22. L’ordre du jour pour le roi,
23. The signs of corruption,
24. Diverse dissatisfaction,
25. Not predestined for knowledge,
26. What is life?
27. The man of renunciation,
28. To be harmful with what is best in us,
29. Add lies,
30. The comedy played by the famous,
31. Trade and nobility,
32. Undesirable disciples,
33. Outside the lecture hall,
34. Historia abscondita,
35. Heresy and witchcraft,
36. Last words,
37. Owing to three errors,
38. The explosive ones,
39. Changed taste,
40. On the lack of noble manners,
41. Against remorse,
42. Work and boredom,
43. What laws betray,
44. Supposed motives,
45. Epicurus,
46. Our amazement,
47. On the suppression of the passions,
48. Knowledge of misery,
49. Magnanimity and related matters,
50. The argument of growing solitude,
51. Truthfulness,
52. What others know about us,
53. Where the good begins,
54. The consciousness of appearance,
55. The ultimate noblemindedness,
56. The craving for suffering,
BOOK TWO
57. To the realists,
58. Only as creators!
59. We artists,
60. Women and their action at a distance,
61. In honor of friendship,
62. Love,
63. Woman in music,
64. Skeptics,
65. Devotion,
66. The strength of the weak,
67. Simulating—oneself,
68. Will and willingness,
69. Capacity for revenge,
70. Women who master the masters,
71. On female chastity,
72. Mothers,
73. Holy cruelty,
74. Failures,
75. The third sex,
76. The greatest danger,
77. The animal with a good conscience,
78. What should win our gratitude,
79. The attraction of imperfection,
80. Art and nature,
81. Greek taste,
82. Esprit as un-Greek,