Walter Kaufmann (1) (1921–1980)
Author of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
For other authors named Walter Kaufmann, see the disambiguation page.
Walter Kaufmann (1) has been aliased into Walter Arnold Kaufmann.
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1885) — Translator, some editions — 10,022 copies
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- Legal name
- Kaufmann, Walter Arnold
- Birthdate
- 1921-07-01
- Date of death
- 1980-09-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Birthplace
- Freiburg, Germany
- Place of death
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Education
- Williams College
Harvard University - Occupations
- philosopher
translator
academic - Organizations
- Princeton University
United States Army (WWII)
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I was struck by the variation in readability, especially in the principal two authors represented. At times, Jaspers lapsed into jargon. I imagine a serious read of one of his books in German would involve coming to terms with him. With Sartre, it was more extreme. I had a hard time following the chapter on self-deception (“mauvaise foi”) from Being and Nothingness. Sartre seemed to pursue his own dialectic, negating every term he introduced. The lecture, “Existententialism is a Humanism,” on the other hand, was easily readable.… (more)