Readings: Nietzsche, The Gay Science


For Friday, June 20, 1997:

Translator's "Introduction," Sections 1-6 (pp. 3-25);

"Preface for the Second Edition" (pp. 32-38)

Book I (pp. 73-118): focus especially on aphorisms 1-4

Book II (pp. 121-164)

Book III (pp. 167-198 [--> Aphorism 154]; read especially Aphorism 125 with great care)


[If we decide to continue with Nietzsche the following week:

Book III (pp. 198-220)

Book IV (pp. 223-275; read especially Aphorisms 290, 341)

Aphorisms from Book V:

343-345

352

370

377