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37 reviews
Martin Buber

Free Press, 1971

The Gem at the Navel of the Lotus
Ich und Du (badly) translated as I And Thou, by Martin Buber, takes me beyond any book I've ever read before. I had to read it with another selection, because after a few pages, my soul became saturated, and I had to read something else. I am at a loss for how to describe this book. The Third Testament hints at the idea. We construct the world in one of two ways: either through a ...

Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)

34 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern Library, 2000

Kaufmann Translations with all Footnotes
The Birth of Tragedy-75 Aphorism-Beyond Good and Evil-The Genealogy of Morals (3 Essays)-The Case of Wagner-Interpretations/commentaries A great collection, though a strange chronological leap from BOT to BGE. Right for the price and a great review of the later published books of FN. All of Kaufmann's footnotes are maintained. You'll at least want to have had read The Gay Science before coming ...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All

102 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1978

One of the most challenging works I have ever read
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (originally Also Sprach Zarathustra) is considered by some (myself included) to have been the crowning work of the nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900). Unlike most modern philosophical works, Zarathustra's format harkens back to the Bible and to the ancient Greek works such as Plato's dialogues. In it, Zarathustra wanders the ...

Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind

2 reviews
Walter Kaufmann

Transaction Publishers, 1991

An examination of the human qualities worth cultivating
Goethe, Kant, Hegel is the first book of the Discovering the mind trilogy. This trilogy was Kaufmann's final work. The ideas discussed in this book are not new to his work but rather make it more complete. All of Kaufmann's work taken together forms an organic seamless whole. In this book as with his others Kaufmann is interested in uncovering, exploring, defining and evaluating what is the ...

Philosophic Classics: Vol. I: Ancient Philosophy

6 reviews
Walter Kaufmann

Prentice Hall College Div, 1996

Wonderful! SPectacular! AMAZING!
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Goethe's Faust

28 reviews
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Anchor, 1962

"Breathe, spirit, soar!"
I have no doubt that this is the best English translation of Faust. It is certainly the translation for those who love the tale. All the life and humor and glory shines through. It is not a "scholar's" translation. It is still fully alive. I know that people avoid Faust for being too formidable and daunting. They need not feel so. It is amazing just how smoothly the translation of Part One ...

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian)

22 reviews

Plume, 1975

The Best Introduction to Existentialism
This anthology of Existentialist texts is the best introduction to Existentialism currently available in English. Walter Kaufmann (best known to philosophy readers as the twentieth century's most important translator of Nietzsche) presents a selection of key texts from Kierkegaard, Dostoyevski, Nietzsche of course, Heidegger, Sartre and others, and Kaufmann prefaces the anthology with a ...

Beyond Good and Evil (Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future)

2 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage Books, 1966

A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of a "will to power" is central to his philosophical beliefs, and a recurring theme in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." When Nietzsche was a budding philosopher, he admired and was influenced by the writings of another philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer. However, Schopenhauer, like most scientists ...

The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)

42 reviews

Penguin Books, 1977

A Correction of False Vulgarization of Neitzsche
A recent interesing discussion encouraged this reviewer to comment on this book edited by the late Walter Kaufmann. This anthology undermines the false popularlization of Nietzsche, and serious readers get a better understanding of Nietzsche than is provided by critis many of whom have probably not read Nietzsche. One should avoid "slick manuals and canned opinions edited at the editor's table. ...

The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

26 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1974

THE FAVOURITE: JOY THANKS TO LUCIDITY
For the admirers of Nietzsche and those who love to read him, "The Gay Science" is somehow their FAVOURITE BOOK. In this work the hughe, great German philosopher and psychologist (honour to whom it deserves!) confronts us with a rather fleet-footed, almost "dancing" way of writing about his eternal themes that never ever have left his thoughts, his way of thinking and his brilliant pen. HERE is ...

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: The basic writings of Existentialism, many never before translated.

Meridian Books: World Publishing Co, 1957

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

29 reviews
Walter A. Kaufmann

Princeton University Press, 1975

Great milk!
I read this book in an attempt to start my education of Nietzsche and his philosophy. I thought, at first glance, that it was a biography and a great place to start. I may have been wrong. This text is not a biography. It is not light reading. In fact, it was written by one of the foremost scholars on the life and philosophy of the difficult Nietzsche and Kaufmann is highly intelligent himself. ...

Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

72 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1989

A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of a "will to power" is central to his philosophical beliefs, and a recurring theme in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." When Nietzsche was a budding philosopher, he admired and was influenced by the writings of another philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer. However, Schopenhauer, like most scientists ...

Critique of Religion and Philosophy

22 reviews
Walter A. Kaufmann

Princeton University Press, 1979

To Paraphase Jacques Barzun, This Book Gives Us the Illusionion We Are Living in the World of the Intellect
To say that Walter Kaufmann's book titled CRITIQUE OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY is a thoughtfu book is an understatement. Kaufmann's book engages the reader regardless of his/her religous "convictions." This book should appeal to thoughtful Chtistians and Jews who are serious about religious thought and are not victim of "cheap grace." This book is also a thoughtful literary examination for ...

Tragedy and Philosophy

7 reviews
Walter A. Kaufmann

Princeton University Press, 1992

the finest book on tragedy and thought I have come across.
Walter Kaufmann, you are missed. In this age where intellectuals and academics seem able to justify their lives and works solely by how confusing or intimidating they are, Kaufmann's work are respite, reprieve, and sanctuary. Sometimes I feel like the post-modern intellectual ferment is a phenomenon akin to Medieval Scholasticism (how many angels can dance on the head of a pin)- the rampantly ...

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida (5th Edition) (Philosophic Classics)

2 reviews
Forrest E. Baird, Walter Kaufmann

Prentice Hall, 2007

Excellent Introduction to Philosophy Text
If you teach Introduction to Philosophy using a historical approach, this is the text I recommend. I used "The Philosophic Classics 2nd edition, From Plato to Nietzsche" for my classes and was looking for a text with the same basic works with some more contemporary materials. I find the updated 3rd edition, "From Plato to Derrida" the perfect solution. Instead of having to look through more ...

On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

18 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1989

On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo.
_On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo_ consists of translations by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale of the works _On the Genealogy of Morals, A Polemic_ (_Zur Genealogie der Moral, Eine Streitschrift_), first published in 1887, and _Ecce Homo_, written in 1888, by the tormented German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche. _On the Genealogy of Morals_ was Nietzsche's eighth book and consists of ...

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