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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| Contributor | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives | - |
| Author | Babette Babich | - |
| Author | Babette E. Babich | - |
| Other Identifier | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1032.1060 | - |
| Other Identifier | http://fordham.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1019%26context%3Dphil_babich | - |
| URI | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/65744 | - |
| Description | Nietzsche’s conception of a gay science is alluringly seductive, comic, and light – and accordingly many readers have celebrated it as the art of laughter. And, to be sure, the first edition of The Gay Science began with a teasing series of light, joking rhymes.1 Taking this teasing further, the 1887 title page replaces the 1882 epigraph from Emerson with a gently unserious rhyme, adding a fifth book and finishing it off with an additional cycle of songs – Songs of Prince Vogelfrei2 – invoking at once the knightly as well as the chastely3 erotic character of the troubadour (and recurring in the arch allusions of Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo). Nevertheless, a “gay ” science, emphasizing light and laughter, has well-known risks: success in the parodic art of laughter seems to block the seriousness of science. Nietzsche recollected what he mocked as the “vanity ” of then contemporary scholars, incensed by his use of the “word ‘science, ’ ” – a pique that not has quite played itself out – and their complaint, “ ‘gay ’ it may be, but it is certainly not ‘science ’ ” (KSA 12, 2[166]). The objection is a pointed one. Nietzsche had hoped to articulate a profoundly “serious” science (GS 382), gay only out of profundity – just as the ancient Greeks had dis- | - |
| Language | eng | - |
| Rights | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. | - |
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 940 | - |
| Title | Esthetics Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Medieval History Commons, Musicology Commons, Other French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, Philosophy of Science Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons | - |
| Type | text | - |
| AMAD ID | 568063 | - |
| Open Access | 1 | - |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe | |
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