The Joyous Science

<b>Friedrich Nietzsche (Author) </b><br> <b>Friedrich Nietzsche</b> (1844-1900) was born near Leipzig in 1844. When he was only twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University. Works published in the 1880s include <i>The Gay Science</i> <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i> <i>Beyond Good and Evil</i> <i>On the Genealogy of Morals</i> <i>Twilight of the Idols </i>and <i>The Antichrist</i>. In January 1889 Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized spending the rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works published after his death in 1900 include <i>Will to Power</i> based on his notebooks and <i>Ecce Homo</i> his autobiography.<br><br><b>R. Kevin Hill (Translator) </b><br> R. Kevin Hill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of <i>Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought</i> (2003) and <i>Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed</i> (2007) and co-translator of Nietzsche's <i>The Will to Power</i>.<br><br> <i>The Joyous Science</i> is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative; in his words this is a book of 'exuberance restlessness contrariety and April showers'. With its unique voice and style its playful combination of poetry and prose and its invigorating quest for self-emancipation <i>The Joyous Science</i> is a literary <i>tour de force</i> and quite possibly Nietzsche's best book. <i>The Joyous Science</i> is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative; in his words this is a book of 'exuberance restlessness contrariety and April showers'. With its unique voice and style its playful combination of poetry and prose and its invigorating quest for self-emancipation <i>The Joyous Science</i> is a literary <i>tour de force</i> and quite possibly Nietzsche's best book.