The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fr...
Nietzsche, Friedrich / Schrift, Alan / Del Caro, Adrian![The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of the Joyful Science (Spring 1881-Summer 1882)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/387/38782429/CHSBZCOP0338782429.jpg)
Written on the threshold of Thus Spoke Zarathustra during a high point of social, intellectual and psychic vibrancy, The Joyful Science (frequently translated as The Gay Science) is one of Nietzsche's thematically tighter books. Here he debuts and practices the art of amor fati, love of fate, to explore what is "species preserving" in relation to happiness (Book One), inspiration and the role of art as they keep us mentally fit for inhabiting ...