The Joyous Science

Friedrich Nietzsche (Author) Friedrich Nietzsche (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 The Gay Science Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil On the Genealogy of Morals Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist. In January 1889 Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized spending the rest of his life in a conditi...See More