The Gay Science

基本信息

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Language: English

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher:Dover Publications (29 Nov 2006)

ISBN:9780486452463

Weight:228g

Dimensions:209 x 135 x 12 (mm)

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書籍簡介

《快樂的科學》在尼采的一生中處於中心的位置，它也是尼采採用哲學的敍述方式最成功的嘗試。身為哲學家的尼采與科學對立，又以哲學家的身份抗拒藝術，同時也抗拒哲學家的語言。尼采處在藝術和科學的彼岸，為這個主題傾注了持續不斷的熱情，這部作品正是這種熱情的成果。本書提供了一種新的人類精神中關於科學和藝術問題的解決辦法，尼采並不是要壓抑和抑制科學和藝術，而是將二者置於一個美化的領域使之共存。

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.

作者簡介

弗里德里希·威廉·尼采（Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche，1844～1900）德國著名哲學家，西方現代哲學的開創者，語言學家、文化評論家、詩人、作曲家、思想家，他的着作對於宗教、道德、現代文化、哲學、以及科學等領域提出了廣泛的批判和討論。他的寫作風格獨特，經常使用格言和悖論的技巧。尼采對於後代哲學的發展影響極大，尤其是在存在主義與後現代主義上。在開始研究哲學前，尼采是一名文字學家。24歲時尼采成為了瑞士巴塞爾大學的德語區古典語文學教授，專攻古希臘語，拉丁文文獻。但在1879年由於健康問題而辭職，之後一直飽受精神疾病煎熬。1889年尼采精神崩潰，從此再也沒有恢復，在母親和妹妹的照料下一直活到1900年去世。主要着作有《權力意志》 、《悲劇的誕生》、《不合時宜的考察》、《查拉圖斯特拉如是説》、《希臘悲劇時代的哲學》、《論道德的譜系》等。

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.