# The Gay Science

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- Book: [The Gay Science](https://www.bookquiver.com/nietzsche/the-gay-science) ([The Gay Science.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nietzsche/the-gay-science.md))
- Authors: [Nietzsche](https://www.bookquiver.com/nietzsche)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-9471-985-6
- Pages: 416
- Published: 1974-01-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The book Nietzsche called " the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the...