Walter Kaufmann : philosopher, humanist, heretic /
The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishin...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Nietzsche redivivus
- Raw life
- Cleaning the stables
- Transcending the human
- The riches of the world
- A Contempt for popularity
- Stories of religion
- Living with Hegel
- The philosophy of tragedy
- Tragedy as philosophy
- Against decrepit ideas
- The places of religion
- This priceless heritage
- What is man's lot?
- Philosophy as psychology
- Opium of the intellectuals
- Unsubdued quarrels
- Epilogue
- Postscript. Contra Nietzsche.