The Gay Science [Paperback]

An analysis of the boundaries between poetry and science, the issue of criticism, and the ethics of artistic production.Eneas Sweetland (E. S.) Dallas (18281879) was a journalist whose love of poetry led to his writing the two-volume The Gay Science, published in 1866. The title comes from an expression used by Proven?al troubadours to describe composing poetry. Volume 2 examines pleasure and the ethics of art.Eneas Sweetland (E. S.) Dallas (18281879) was a journalist whose love of poetry led to his writing the two-volume The Gay Science, published in 1866. The title comes from an expression used by Proven?al troubadours to describe composing poetry. Volume 2 examines pleasure and the ethics of art.Eneas Sweetland (E. S.) Dallas (18281879) was a journalist who worked for The Times among other publications and whose interest in psychology and love of poetry led to his writing the two-volume  though he originally intended four  The Gay Science, published in 1866. The work takes its title from an expression used by Proven?al troubadours to describe the art of composing poetry, and the volumes are concerned with the unclear and often shifting boundaries between art and science and whether they can be reconciled. Volume 2 considers this question in relation to pleasure: what it is, the historical and philosophical understanding of this emotion and sensation, whether it should be pursued, and its relation to artistic production. The remainder of the book looks at the issue of the ethics of art and the nature of artistic enterprise, as well as the changing stance of the viewer.10. On pleasure; 11. Mixed pleasure; 12. Pure pleasure; 13. Hidden pleasure; 14. The ethics of art; 15. The pursuit of pleasure; 16. The world of fiction; 17. The ethical current; Index.