Walter Kaufmann

Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 - September 4, 1980) was a 20th-century German philosopher, scholar, and poet. He produced much original philosophy, most of which was on subjects related to what would now be called authenticity. He also wrote on, among other things, atheism. His translations of Nietzsche and his anthology of existentialist works, such as Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, are also celebrated works of his.

Partial bibliography

Original works

• Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
• From Shakespeare to Existentialism
• Critique of Religion and Philosophy
• Tragedy and Philosophy
• Hegel: A Reinterpretation
• The Faith of a Heretic
• Without Guilt and Justice
• Cain and Other Poems
• 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• Twenty-Five German Poets (superseded the earlier Twenty German Poets)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)
• Judaism and Christianity, essays by Leo Baeck
• I and Thou, by Martin Buber

As composed or published by Friedrich Nietzsche in chronological order:

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• The Birth of Tragedy Or: Hellenism And Pessimism
• Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, followed by the akin volumes:
• Mixed Opinions and Maxims
• The Wanderer and His Shadow
• The Dawn
• 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
• The Case of Wagner
• Twilight of the Idols
• The Antichrist
• Nietzsche contra Wagner
• Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
• The Will to Power

Anthologies/edited works

• The Portable Nietzsche
• Basic Writings of Nietzsche, designed to be complementary with above
• Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
• Religion from Tolstoy to Camus, a companion to the above
• Philosophic Classics, in four volumes
• Hegel's Political Philosophy

Forewords/contributions

• Foreword to Alienation, by Richard Schacht
• Foreword to Frau Lou, by Rudolph Binion
• Foreword to The Present Age, by Søren Kierkegaard; translated by Alexander Dru