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Key facts
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Original title
- Die fröhliche Wissenschaft
- Language
- German
- Published
- 1st edition: 1882 (Ernst Schmeitzner), 2nd edition: 1887 (E.W. Fritzsch)
- Publication date
- 1882-1887
- Publication place
- Germany
- Preceded by
- Idylls from Messina (1881)
- Followed by
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra , (1883–1885)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre
- philosophy
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Followed by
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Follows
- The Dawn of Day
- Main subject
- amor fati
- Image
- FW82.jpg
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- language of work or name
- German
- title
- Die fröhliche Wissenschaft
- publication date
- 1882-00-00
- inception
- 1881-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/nietzsch/wissensc/wissensc.html
- Commons category
- The Gay Science
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft; sometimes translated as The Joyful Wisdom or The Joyous Science) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1882, and was followed by a second edition in 1887, after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. This substantial expansion includes the addition of a fifth book to the existing four books of The Gay Science, as well as an appendix of songs. It was described by Nietzsche as "the most personal of all my books", and contains more poems than any of his other works.
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