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He wrote in the Preface to the second edition, "`Gay Science': that signifies the saturnalia of a spirit who has patiently resisted a terrible, long pressure... and who is now all at once attacked by hope, the hope for health, and the INTOXICATION of convalescence. Is it any wonder that in the process much that is unreasonable and foolish comes to light, much playful tenderness that is lavished even on problems that have a prickly hide and are not made to be caressed and enticed?Read more ›
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Kaufmann's translation is the best I have found so far. He does a great justice to Niestzsche's poetry and style. Kaufmann saved Nietzsche from being misinterpreted and provided us with a fair amount of material which otherwise would have been impossible to digest or even access because Freddie is not the type of author who can be cited easily.
I love and read all of Freddie's work, but TGS is his summum bonum. It takes several re-reads to be able to grasp it, so if you are looking to get up and close with philosophy, this is it!!
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In Nietzsche's GAY SCIENCE, he speaks of the nature of power and how it can be mishandled. His example is that of Luther and the Church. Luther, according to Nietzsche, wanted to save the Church from the impending secularism of its evolution towards the Enlightenment. That religious power should find the maturity of its ultimate expression in secular enlightenment was beyond Luther's power to see. He rushed to "save" the Church, by "reforming" it, and thus undermined its authority in the broader scope of life. After Luther's intervention, the influence of the Church became narrower; its authority diminished. Nietzche effectively chastises Protestant reformer Martin Luther for being of the lower classes and hence not understanding how power actually worked. By virtue of his lack of knowledge and experience of power, he achieved the opposite to that which he had set out to achieve.
One way of looking at Luther and his intervention is that Luther was a "Beta" male. He didn't understand that power, in order to maintain itself as genuine authority, has to exert itself with in subtle ways. Luther's efforts therefore made the Church's influence appear cruder and more harshly defined. This was the means by which he stripped the Church of power -- by defining power too narrowly, and by not understanding that authority can only develop as a feature of power over a long time. Instead, Luther only understood power much as a "Beta" male understands it, that is, as something to be grabbed at, and imposed by force, rather than as something that gradually develops, along with the relationships that allow it to justify itself.
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This review addresses the Kindle edition of Kaufmann's translation of what I have come to believe is Nietzsche's most engaging work, the one which gives some of his most interesting psychological insights, done in his period of greatest productivity, just before and during the writing of Also Sprach Zarathustra. (Beyond Good and Evil and A Geneology of Morals are also very important.) Unlike "Beyond Good and Evil", there are some excellently even-handed comments about women in this book.
This may be the first book I am reading 'from cover to cover' on a Kindle, and the experience is rewarding. There are several things which are annoying about Kindle, but one of the very best aspects is the way it handles footnotes. Click on a footnote number, and it immediately takes you not only to the page where that note appears, but it puts the note at the top of the page. This is something no hard copy can do. The other side of the coin is that it suffers from Kindle's difficulty in handling bilingual texts. It takes a whole lot of jiggery pokery to have the German and English versions of the poems to come out side by side. I'm not even sure it's possible. Fortunately, the poems are numbered, for those who don't know German.
Note that some of Kaufmann's Nietzsche books are protected from copying, which is hugely annoying when you are writing papers, and you want an accurate quote. This one has no such prohibition. I am fond of Kaufmann's translations, and the Cambridge University Press edition is not available on Kindle, so this is the one to get. Avoid the cheap or free versions. What is listed under the Cambridge Kindle is NOT the translation published by Cambridge.
One general comment about Kindle on the PC. It would be really nice if one could open multiple Kindle windows.Read more ›
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This item: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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