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God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ⓘ; also known as the death of God) is a statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The first instance of this statement in Nietzsche's writings is in his 1882 The Gay Science , where it appears three times.
First instance of the poem, within Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in German Second instance of the poem, within Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in German. Zarathustra's roundelay (German: Zarathustra's Rundgesang), [1] also called the Midnight Song (Mitternachts-Lied [2]) or Once More (German: Noch ein Mal), [3] is a poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
These poems were written in Sicily during the spring of 1882, where Nietzsche remained for three weeks after arriving from Genoa. In May 1882, those eight idylls were published in Internationale Monatschrift by Ernst Schmeitzner , Nietzsche's publisher at the time, with whom he would later sever all ties and whom he will eventually sue.
37. "Without music, life would be a mistake." 38. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." 39. "The pure soul is a pure lie."
The statement "God is dead," occurring in several of Nietzsche's works (notably in The Gay Science), has become one of his best-known remarks. On the basis of it, many commentators [ 170 ] regard Nietzsche as an atheist ; others (such as Kaufmann) suggest that this statement might reflect a more subtle understanding of divinity.
Nietzsche famously declared the "death of God" in The Gay Science (1882), a metaphor for the collapse of traditional values and the rise of the Void as a central concern in modernity. With the death of God, Nietzsche argues, humanity faces a profound Void—an absence of any external source of meaning or value. This leads to what Nietzsche ...
The other three poems (Klage der Ariadne, Nur Narr! Nur Dichter! and Unter Töchtern der Wüste ) are compositions drawn from those found in Also sprach Zarathustra only slightly altered. Ruhm und Ewigkeit was published at the end of the 1908 first edition of Ecce Homo ; however, it is now deemed to be a requisite part of Dionysos-Dithyramben .
The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft; sometimes translated as The Joyful Wisdom or The Joyous Science) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1882, and followed by a second edition in 1887 after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil.