Hey /lit/ I had an exam on The Gay Science by Nietzsche last

>philosophy course
>exams instead of essays

it just don't make sense

>>9619118
>Philosophy
>not an inherently oral discipline

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It is just how it's supposed to be.
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>>9619117
In what country can you refuse your grade? What shit is this?

>>9619152
You can't do re-examinations?

>>9619152
Italy, it's university my friend

>>9619117
The Gay Science, Aph.203.
Hic niger est

Are there any translations that render the title word 'fröhlich' as something other than 'gay', given the shift in the connotations of that word over the decades?

>>9619611
it would be very painful, because la gaya scienza remains the provencal inspiration

>>9619674
p.s.:
The term la gaya scienza came from the language of Provence. It pertained to the new European poetry of the 12th century, which like all poetry, was often chanted or sung. The title of Friedrich Nietzsche's book "die Froehliche Wissenschaft" (La Gaya Scienza) seems to have been drawn in part from the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom Nietzsche very much admired. In his lecture on 'The Scholar', Emerson wrote: "I think the peculiar office of scholars in a careful and gloomy generation is to be (as the poets were called in the Middle Ages) Professors of the Joyous Science, detectors and delineators of occult symmetries & unpublished beauties, heralds of civility, nobility, learning & wisdom; affirmers of the One Law, yet as ones who should affirm it in music or dancing."
http://www.martinbresnick.com/programnotes/gayascienza.htm

>>9619683
Interesting thanks anon

>>9619190
I'm in University too, but no such thing exists here.