INTRODUCTION IINTRODUCTION IICHRONOLOGYFURTHER READINGNOTE ON THE TEXTTHE GAY SCIENCE(LA GAYA SCIENZA)JOKE, CUNNING AND REVENGE: PRELUDE INGERMAN RHYMESBOOK ONEBOOK TWO BOOK THREEBOOK FOUR: ST JANUARIUSBOOK FIVE: WE FEARLESS ONESAPPENDIX: SONGS OF PRINCE VOGELFREI
THE GAY SCIENCF. (German: Die Froehlich Wissenschaft) is a book written by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1882 and followed by a second edition, which was published after the comlio of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, in 1887. Here also is the first occurrence of the famous formulation "God is dead" After Buddha was dead, people showed his shadow for centuries afterwards in a cave,-an immense frightful shadow. God is dead; but as the human race /s constituted, there will perhaps be caves for rrullenniums yet, in which people wilt show his shadow.-And we-we have still to overcome his shadow!