Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)  

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Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 - September 4, 1980 Princeton, New Jersey) was an American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, and philosophy and literature.

He is particularly renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. Kaufmann's clear, witty English was quite unlike the writings of many of the theologians and philosophers whom he discussed.

Partial bibliography

Original works

• Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
• From Shakespeare to Existentialism
• Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre
• Critique of Religion and Philosophy
• Tragedy and Philosophy
• Hegel: A Reinterpretation
• The Faith of a Heretic: What Can I Believe? How Should I Live? What Do I Hope? (downloadable) (the title after the colon is from the 'mass market paperback' version)
• Without Guilt and Justice
• Cain and Other Poems
• Existentialism, Religion, and Death: Thirteen Essays
• The Future of the Humanities
• Religions in Four Dimensions
• Discovering the Mind, a trilogy consisting of
  • Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
  • Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber
  • Freud Versus Adler and Jung
• Man's Lot: A Trilogy, consisting of
  • Life at the Limits
  • Time is an Artist
  • What is Man?

Translations

• Twenty-Five German poets (superseded the earlier Twenty German Poets)
• Goethe's Faust (Part One and selections from Part Two)
• Hegel: Texts and Commentary
• Judaism and Christianity, essays by Leo Baeck
• I and Thou, by Martin Buber

As written or published by Friedrich Nietzsche in chronological order:

• The Birth of Tragedy Or: Hellenism And Pessimism
• The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
• Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
• On the Genealogy of Morals (with R. J. Hollingdale)
• The Case of Wagner A Musician's Problem
• Twilight of the Idols How One Philosophizes with a Hammer
• The Antichrist
• Nietzsche contra Wagner
• Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
• The Will to Power (with R. J. Hollingdale)

Anthologies/edited works

• The Portable Nietzsche. Viking.
• Basic Writings of Nietzsche, designed to complement the preceding.
• Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
• Religion from Tolstoy to Camus, a companion to the preceding.
• Philosophic Classics, in two volumes: 1, 2
• Hegel's Political Philosophy

Articles, book chapters, and introductions

• “Nietzsche's Admiration for Socrates,” Journal of the History of Ideas, v. 9, October 1948, pp. 472–491. Earlier version: “Nietzsche's Admiration for Socrates” (Bowdoin Prize, 1947; pseud. David Dennis)
• “Goethe and the History of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas, v. 10, October 1949, pp. 503–516.
• “The Hegel Myth and Its Method,” Philosophical Review v.60, No. 4 (October 1951), pp. 459–486.
• “Some Typical Misconceptions of Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity,” Philosophical Review v. 61, no. 4 (October 1952), pp. 595–599.
• “Hegel's Early Antitheological Phase,” Philosophical Review v. 63, no. 1 (January 1954), pp. 3–18.
• “Nietzsche and Rilke,” Kenyon Review, XVII (1955), pp. 1–23.
• “Toynbee and Superhistory” Partisan Review, vol. 22, no. 4, Fall 1955, pp. 531–541. Reprinted in Template:Cite book
• “A Hundred Years after Kierkegaard,” Kenyon Review, XVIII, pp. 182–211.
• “Jaspers’ Relation to Nietzsche,” in Paul Schilpps, ed., The Philosophy of Karl Jaspers (New York: Tudor, 1957), pp. 407-436.
• “The Faith of a Heretic,” Harper's Magazine, February 1959, pp. 33-39. Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• “Existentialism and Death,” Chicago Review, XIII, 1959, pp. 73–93. Revised version reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• “” in The Meaning of Death, Herman Feifel, New York: The Blakiston Division / McGraw-Hill, 1959.
• Preface to Europe and the Jews: The Pressure of Christendom on the People of Israel for 1900 Years, 2d ed, by Malcolm Hay. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961.
• “A Philosopher's View,” in Ethics and Business: Three Lectures. University Park, Pa., 1962, pp. 35–54. Originally presented at a seminar sponsored by the College of Business Administration of the Pennsylvania State University on March 19, 1962.
• “Nietzsche Between Homer and Sartre: Five Treatments of the Orestes Story," Revue Internationale de Philosophie v. 18, 1964, pp. 50–73.
• “Nietzsche in the Light of his Suppressed Manuscripts,” Journal of the History of Philosophy v. 2, October 1964, pp. 205–226.
• “” in Philosophy and Educational Development, Ed. by G. Barnett. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.
• “,” in Art and philosophy, a symposium. Hook, Sidney, ed. New York University Press, New York. 1966
• “Buber's Religious Significance,” from The Philosophy of Martin Buber, ed. P. A. Schilpp and Maurice Friedman (London: Cambridge University Press, 1967) Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• “The Reception of Existentialism in the United States,” Midway, vol. 9 (1) (Summer 1968), pp. 97–126. Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• Foreword to Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple, by Rudolph Binion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969.
• Introductory essay, Alienation Richard Schacht, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1970
• “The Future of Jewish Identity,” The Jerusalem Post Magazine August 1, 1969, pp. 607. Reprinted in Congressional Bi-Weekly, April 3, 1970; in Conservative Judaism, Summer 1970; in New Theology no. 9, 1972, pp. 41–58, and in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976.)
• Foreword to An Introduction to Hegel's Metaphysics, by Ivan Soll. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
• “The Origin of Justice,” Review of Metaphysics v. 23, December 1969, pp. 209–239.
• “Beyond Black and White,” Midway, v. 10(3) (Winter 1970), pp. 49–79. Also Survey no. 73 (Autumn 1969), pp. 22–46. Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• "Hegel's Ideas about Tragedy" in New Studies in Hegel's Philosophy, ed. Warren E. Steinkraus (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1971), pp. 201–220.
• “The Death of God and the Revaluation,” in Robert Solomon, ed., Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Anchor Press, 1973), pp. 9–28.
• “The Discovery of the Will to Power,” in Robert Solomon, ed., Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Anchor Press, 1973), pp. 226–242.
• Foreword in Truth and Value in Nietzsche: A Study of His Metaethics and Epistemology by John T. Wilcox. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1974
• “Nietzsche and Existentialism,” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures, v. 28(1) (Spring 1974), pp. 7–16. Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• “Hegel's Conception of Phenomenology” in Phenomenology and Philosophical Understanding, Edo Pivcevič, ed., pp. 211–230 (1975).
• “Unknown Feuerbach Autobiography,” Times Literary Supplement 1976 (3887): 1123-1124.
• “A Preface to Kierkegaard,” in Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age and Of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle, trans. Alexander Dru, Harper Torchbooks, pp. 9–29. Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• “On Death and Lying,” Reprinted in Existentialism, Religion, and Death (New York: New American Library, 1976).
• “Letter on Nietzsche,” Times Literary Supplement 1978 (3960): 203.
• “Buber's Failures and Triumph,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie v. 32, 1978, pp. 441–459.
• “Buber: Of His Failures and Triumph,” Encounter 52(5): 31-38 1979.
• Reply to letter, Encounter 55(4): 95 1980.
• “Art, Tradition, and Truth,” Partisan Review, XVII, pp. 9–28.

Sound recordings

• "Prof. Kaufmann discusses Sartre, Jaspers, Heidegger, Kierkegaard"
• "Kierkegaard and the Crisis in Religion" Part 1 of 3 Lectures
• "Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy" Part 2 of 3 Lectures
• "Sartre and the Crisis in Morality" Part 3 of 3 Lectures
• "Oedipus Rex"
• "Homer and the Birth of Tragedy"
• "Aeschylus and the Death of Tragedy"
• "The Power of the Single Will"
• "Three Satanic Interludes"
• "The Will to Power Reexamined"