Download walter kaufmanns lectures on nietzsche, kierkegaard. Kaufmanns this immensely readable and absorbing book the first of a threevolume series on understanding the human mind concentrates on three major figures who have. Summer reading 2005 hegelantigone skidmore college. Kaufmann is mostly occupied with correcting previous misinterpretations of hegel s thought, providing useful philological material, and interpreting hegel s. Walter kaufmanns classic lectures on nietzsche, kierkegaard. Click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Walter arnold kaufmann, hegels political philosophy philpapers. Arthur szathmary, who together with walter kaufmann joined princetons. And more than anyone else, kaufmann introduced nietzsches philosophy to the englishspeaking world and made it possible to take nietzsche seriously as a thinker something there wasnt always room to do in american intellectual circles without. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Walter arnold kaufmann july 1, 1921 september 4, 1980 was a germanamerican philosopher, translator, and poet. This and other errors led kaufmann to wonder whether common had little german and less english. Nietzsche 1844 1900 nietzsches writings had a profound impact in the 20th century influencing a wide range of leading cultural figures from novelists and poets, playwrights, composers, painters, sculptors, architects freud and jung and the whole. Herbert marcuse called the preface to hegels phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical. Walter kaufmann 19211980 was professor of philosophy at princeton university from 1947 until his death. Of course, reactions to or transformations of hegelianism have long been with us, whether of the marxist variety, or in aesthetics croce and. Hegel was not a pagan like shakespeare and goethe but a philosopher who considered himself christian and tried to do from a protestant point of view what aquinas had attempted six hundred years earlier. Walter kaufmann, preface to the present age, by soren kierkegaard, dru translation 1962 p. He realized that at the center of the greatest tragedies of aeschylus and sophocles we find not a tragic hero but a tragic collision, and that the conflict is.
He had visiting appointments at columbia, cornell, the. Walter arnold kaufmann, hegel, a reinterpretation philpapers. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. A reinterpretation paperback 31 may 1978 by walter a.
Findlays hegel 1958 remains a milestone in the recep tion of hegel in the englishspeak ing world. What does walter kaufmanns heidegger critique have to. It is not intended to be an overview of hegels thought. Hegels central insight with regard to greek tragedy has been clearly articulated by walter kaufmann. While primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, his work has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Thomas wayne, an english professor at edison state college in fort myers, florida, published a translation in 2003. Walter arnold kaufmann was a germanamerican philosopher, translator, and poet. Hegel, like others between 1790 to 1990, tried to reconcile kant and goethe. Kaufmann shows this is impossible he paints a large picture, but he is always highly specific and details the major contributions of goethe and hegel as well as the ways in which kants immense influence proved catastrophic. Hegel gwf aesthetics lectures on fine art vol 2 1975. Walter kaufmann spent 33 years 19471980 teaching philosophy at princeton.
And since disputes about the meaning of the term aside heidegger clearly was major player in what the academic public associated with existentialism, kaufmann seems to have wanted. Walter kaufmanns nietzsche in historical perspective, modern intellectual history 3 2006, 239269 sokel, walter. Kaufmann, with astounding scholarship and patience, strips off nietzsche. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects. Since walter kaufmann died in september of last year, the publication of the remaining two volumes is in question. Walter arnold kaufmann, hegels political philosophy. It is not intended to be an overview of hegel s thought. On scientific knowledge 2 sure we do not possess the objective concrete fact, the actual content of the science, but must, over and above. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within western philosophy is universally recognized. Thus spoke zarathustra translations friedrich nietzsche. This substantial expansion includes a fifth book and an appendix of songs.
The new nietzsche who emerges from these pages is one whose leitmotif is the theme of the antipolitical individual. Kaufmann is mostly occupied with correcting previous misinterpretations of hegels thought, providing useful philological material, and interpreting hegels. Princeton philosophy professor kaufmann, noting the disparity between the accomplishments of the natural sciences and those of the humanities, has launched a threevolume effort to see where the practitioners of the human sciences went wrong. When walter kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of world war ii. Nietzsche and the crisis in philosophy, the second part of walter kaufmanns 1960 lecture series. This book, the first intellectual biography of hegel in english, is designed to acquaint the reader with the man and his philosophy and to place the discussion of hegel on a new basis. The crucial influence on hegel of kants philosophy of religion and of lessing, goethe, and schiller is not nearly so easy to determine for oneself. When walter kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of world, isbn 9780691019833 buy the nietzsche.
See all 5 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Review by edward bordeau discovering the mind is the first volume of a trilogy. Review of kaufmanns hegel 299 mention of the graecochristian logos calls to mind the tangled issue of hegels relation to christianity, which i think kaufmann has also over simplified. Ivan soll, who provides the introduction, was a student of kaufmann and is now professor of philosophy at the university of wisconsin. Of course, reactions to or transformations of hegelianism have long been with us, whether of the marxist variety, or in aesthetics croce and dilthey or through the. He aimed to influence tiie course of contemporary philosophy by calling attention to of karl and its 1950 a this coming to terms with hegel by walter kaufmann what he called some merits of. Hegel then adopted the regulative hypothesis, wenning contends, that history itself exhibits tendencies toward the actualization of freedom. In his introduction kaufmann surveys the life and work of nietzsche and makes an effort to place him historically.
Hegel responded to the failure of transcendent ideals, according to wenning, by undertaking a historical genealogy of normativity, and ultimately locating the source of norms in the concept of freedom. Nietzsche 1844 1900 nietzsches writings had a profound impact in the 20th century influencing a wide range of leading cultural figures from novelists and poets, playwrights, composers. And more than anyone else, kaufmann introduced nietzsches philosophy to the englishspeaking world and made it possible to take nietzsche seriously as a thinker something there wasnt always room to do in american intellectual circles. Phillips, phd, says waynes close reading of the original. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism and atheism, christianity and judaism, as well as philosophy and literature, he served more than 30 years as a professor at princeton university. Walter kaufmanns study of hegel is astonishingly erudite and highlyreadable. Nietzsche despised romanticism and admired en lightenment and even his ecce homo, in whose overtones mr. And more than anyone else, kaufmann introduced nietzsches philosophy to the englishspeaking world and made it possible to take nietzsche seriously as a thinker something there wasnt always room to do in american intellectual circles without simplifying things too much, kaufmann.
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 is one of the first thinkers to as kaufmann sees it bring about the seperation of religious faith from philosphy. This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about nietzsche are measured. The translations of kaufmann and hollingdale render the text in a far more familiar, less archaic, style of language, than that of common. Hegel 17701831 was a german philosopher of the late enlightenment.
It is a book that everyone seems to be familiar with but few have actually read, as if, having succeeded in upending the traditional picture of nietzsche, it can. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. This is the most important work professor kaufmann has written since his celebrated nietzsche. Philosopher, psychologist, antichrist, i am now convinced, or perhaps almost so, that the nietzsche kaufmann discovered comes closer to the nietzsche than the various images and idols which, accepted by layman and professional alike, have blocked a fuller understanding of nietzsches thought. Walter kaufmann 19211980 was a germanamerican philosopher, translator, and poet. For kaufmann nietzsche is the spiritual father of much of modern analytic and existensial philosophy. Paolo diego bubbio 2014 international journal for philosophy of religion 76 2.
A reinterpretation by kaufmann, walter and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A study in academic judgment, nietzschestudien 32 2003, 22658. In this first volume kaufmann, author of books on hegel and nietzsche and translator of goethes faust, is on familiar ground. Kaufmann and existentialism, philosophy and literature 3420101, 1731. Mar 19, 2010 first, he claims that hegel taught that selfevidence is the same as truth p. Walter arnold kaufmann was a germanamerican philosopher and poet. He served more than 30 years as a professor at princeton. Walter kaufmann drucksvolles zitat zur kritik des gleichheitssatzes zusammenflicken. He has written widely on hegel and german philosophical thought. Dem richtigen verstandnis hegels wurde jedoch ein besserer dienst. This acclaimed book by walter kaufmann is available at in several formats for your ereader. Kaufmanns nietzsche is important for other reasons as well.
Thomas wayne, an english professor at edison state college in fort myers, florida, published a translation in. Poppers most ridiculous claim and the last one to be considered here is that the nazis got their racism from hegel. Walter kaufmann s study of hegel is astonishingly erudite and highlyreadable. Aft er 200 years of thought profoundly infl uenced by hegels magnum opus, we seek through these introductions to cast a fresh look at the sheer creative insight and philosophical brilliance of one of the rather distantly understood great philosophers of modern times. Reinterpretation, texts, and commentary walter arnold kaufmann snippet view 1965. Kaufmann first discusses the general crisis in modern philosophy, before focusing on the. Gay science or the joyful wisdom friedrich nietzsche. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of goethe, kant, and hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities. First, he claims that hegel taught that selfevidence is the same as truth p. Denis dutton on walter kaufmann and martin heidegger. Goethe, kant, and hegel walter kaufmann this immensely readable and absorbing book the first of a threevolume series on understanding the human mind concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Kaufmann on popper on hegel philosophy in a time of error.
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