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The Joyful Science is one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s middle works. As a sort of sequel to Daybreak, it features many of the ideas for which Nietzsche would later become famous.

But when we look at the chronology, we see that the work was also released before his most well-known works such as Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, and Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist.

Although that’s not the entirely true, because the Joyful Science has an interesting publishing history. The first edition of the work was released in 1882, while a second edition, which added a fifth book and a prelude and appendix with poems, came out in 1887. So in between publishing the first and the second edition, Nietzsche wrote and released his two most famous works: Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
And the additions to the second edition will sound very familiar to anyone who has read The Genealogy of Morals.

So in a way, the book we know as the Joyful Science functions as a sort of transition between the intermediate and the late Nietzsche. Many ideas that would come to dominate his thought in his later work, will find their first expression here. The two most notable ideas are the Death of God and the Eternal Recurrence.

In this series, we will discuss those ideas along with other central themes of the works. By the way, we have covered many of Nietzsche’s works right here on the channel. We have a full analysis of Beyond Good and Evil, On The Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Daybreak, and Ecce Homo. Check the links in the description if you’re interested. If you like analyses like these, we highly recommend you subscribe to the channel and click the Bell button. Thank you!