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#### A guide to Nietzsche’s most personal book – but one more often quoted than understood * Includes a clear outline of the place of __The Gay Science__ within Nietzsche’s life * Describes what the text has in common with the earlier writings and how it goes beyond them * Traces important links to the later works and particularly to __Beyond Good and Evil__, written in the same year * Offers an account of Nietzsche’s critique of religion and of Christianity in particular * Includes helpful resources for students: a chronology of Nietzsche’s life and work, a glossary of key terms, and index of names and subjects and a guide to further reading From philosophy undergraduates showing off in murky bars to Chidi's unforgettable monologue in TV sensation __The Good Place__, __The Gay Science__ is one Nietzsche's most-quotable texts. But what do those soundbites actually mean? Robert Miner attends closely to the rhymes and aphorisms that make up Nietzsche’s __The Gay Science__ – and make it so appealing yet so frequently misunderstood. Tracking Nietzsche’s mixture of subtle argumentation, memorable images and provocative rhetoric, Miner opens up multiple ways of interpreting the text and

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Robert C Miner
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9781474457729
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy
Updated
2026-03-24

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