He also wrote a 1965 book on Hegel, and a translation of most of Goethe's Faust. He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. He served for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton University. 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, as well as philosophy and literature. The great Walter Kaufmann, in his classic work on Nietzsche, described exactly why Nietzsche is often heralded as a modern day prophet: Sometimes prophecies seem to consist in man’s ability to experience his own wretched fate so deeply that it becomes a symbol of something larger. Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-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, as well as philosophy and literature. Nietzsche - Philosopher, Pschologist, Antichrist - Walter Kaufmann - Friedrich Nietzsche - Vintage Paperback Book Nicely aged vintage copy.
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