Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
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Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served more than 30 years as a professor at Princeton University.
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Born | (1921-07-01)July 1, 1921 |
Died | September 4, 1980(1980-09-04) (aged 59) |
Education | Williams College Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Main interests | Existentialism, philosophy of religion, tragedy |
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He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published a translation of Goethe's Faust, and Martin Buber's I and Thou.