The Joyful Wisdom written in 1882 just before Zarathustra is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsches best books Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful smile The warmth and kindness that beam from his features will astonish those hasty psychologists who have never divined that behind the destroyer is the creator and behind the blasphemer the lover of life In the...