Lyceum Student Speaker Series - Ms. Meredith Johnson on Nietzsche's "The Gay Science"

The Lyceum Student Speaker Series offers Lyceum students a chance to explore their intellectual interests in a public forum.

In this talk entitled "Nietzsche's "The Gay Science": How Modern Man May Come to Understand Himself," Lyceum Scholar Meredith Johnson considers Nietzsche's thought concerning modern man as contained within "The Gay Science," the work hailed by Nietzsche himself to be "the most personal of all my books." Themes such as the psychology of modern man, his new understanding of metaphysics, and the role of art are covered.

Ms. Johnson's talk focuses on Aphorism 153, which is reproduced below:
Homo poeta.— “I myself, having made this tragedy of tragedies all by myself, insofar as it is finished—I, having first tied the knot of morality into existence before I drew it so tight that only a god could untie it (which is what Horace demands)—I myself have now slain all gods in the fourth act, for the sake of morality. Now, what is to become of the fifth act? From where am I to take the tragic solution?—Should I begin to think about a comic solution?”

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(April 26, 2022)
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