Nietzsche on Love
There’s an idea (that I struggle to translate in English) of modesty, prudishness even, in Nietzsche, and it is both intellectual and sentimental. Nietzsche draws often a parallel between the attitude of the philosopher towards Truth with the attitude of women regarding sexuality — read aphorism 4 of The Gay Science for a good example. This book originally appeared in German in , and the author decided to omit the second part of the original, a commentary on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. If that is true, however, one wonders why German-speaking readers of the original do still need such guidance. 
Nietzsche’s The Gay Science
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 , and followed by a second edition in after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. This substantial expansion includes the addition of a fifth book to the existing four books of The Gay Science. Pricked by curiosity, I resolved to find out many years ago by writing to Ernst Federn, the son of Paul and co-editor of the Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. His brother Karl may have been the source.
The Case of Nietzsche
THIRTEEN YEARS after its initial publication in , the great Nietzsche biography Zarathustras Geheimnis, by Joachim Köhler, appeared in an English translation. While I praised the original German edition in the Winter issue of this magazine [then The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review], the conservative Nietzsche establishment has displayed considerably less enthusiasm. In fact, the book. The last of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations was published in The Gay Science was published in THE GAY SCIENCE
This, then, is Zarathustra’s secret: Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s “son,” talks in cryptic terms about Nietzsche’s life itself, his experiences as a fatherless son, and his subsequent experiences as a homosexual condemned to hiding his inclinations. It is also Zarathustra who suggests the therapy: the pure ecstasy of friendship. Your complimentary articles. You can read four articles free per month. Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche undermines any self-deceiving idealism about love through the exposure of its less attractive motivations. In section 14 of The Gay Science, entitled ‘The things people call love’, Nietzsche challenges romantic conceptions of erotic love with the claim that love “may be the most ingenuous expression of egoism.” He proposes that love is close to greed and the lust for. The central interpretive claim is meta-philosophical: Nietzsche revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life and, with it, the figure of the philosopher as physician. The Preface compresses a decade of self-experimentation into a short memoir whose explicit theme is the relation between health and philosophy, where philosophy is taken to be therapeutic in two senses at once. Was Nietzsche a strong proponent of machoism and traditional
It is widely thought by a academics that Nietzsche was gay, or bisexual (eg Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Kohler), which it is thought may have been linked to the rift with Wagner who became not only vocally antisemitic but also homophobic. . 
What is Nietzsche’s opinion of homosexuality?
The Gay Science is the only work that Nietzsche wrote and published before and after the Zarathustra experiment of – It first appeared in , ending with the last aphorism of Book IV and anticipating verbatim the opening of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In Nietzsche republished The Gay Science and added a substantial new part: Book V looks back to “the greatest recent event. .
The Gay Science
Michael Ure’s Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: An Introduction presents Nietzsche’s most intimate book as the staging ground for a philosophical experiment that is biographical without becoming anecdotal, therapeutic without slipping into self-help, and rigorously contextual without reducing aphorism to doctrine. Ure’s point of departure is that The Gay Science is at once a philosophical. .