The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882) by Friedrich Nietzsche is the work in which he first announced 'God is dead,' developing themes of eternal recurrence, nihilism, and the revaluation of values. Book V (added 1887) is among his most philosophically mature writing.
Contains Nietzsche's famous proclamation of the death of God; foundational text for modern atheism and nihilism.
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