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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
An 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 astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked by erudition and an essayistic style. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American readers to existentialism. The author provides a study of Kaufmann's thought, covering all his major works. The author shows how Kaufmann speaks to many issues that concern us today, such as the good of philosophy, the effects of religion, the persistence of tragedy, and the crisis of the humanities in an age of technology. Few scholars can match Kaufmann's range of interests, from philosophy and literature to intellectual history and comparative religion, from psychology and photography to art and architecture. This book provides a portrait of a man who, to an extraordinary extent, transfigured his personal experience in the pages of his books |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 8, 2018) |
| Subject |
Kaufmann, Walter, 1921-1980.
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Kaufmann, Walter, 1921-1980 fast |
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Philosophers -- United States -- Biography
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Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
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Philosophy and religion.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Philosophers.
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Intellectuals
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Philosophers
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Philosophy and religion
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United States
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780691184067 |
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0691184062 |
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