Major Works

• The Gay Science

  - Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882. Recommended translations: The Gay Science, with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 1974. The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom), trans. Thomas Common, Macmillan Co., 1924.
  Excerpt: 1. Invitation Take a chance and try my fare: It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you. If by then you should want more, All the things I’ve done before Will inspire things quite new. 2. My Happiness Since I grew tired of the… More

Commentary

• “The Language of ‘The Gay Science'”

  - Lingis, Alphonso.  "The Language of 'The Gay Science'." In The Philosophical Reflections on Man in Literature. Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. Boston: Riedel, 1982.
  Abstract: “To Nietzsche, the logical axioms of identity, non-contradiction and excluded middle and the metaphysical categories of entity, being, enduring entity have but anthropological and not ontological value. They are the simplifications, the… More

• Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period

  - Paul Franco, Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
  About the book: While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to… More