Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann was Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947 until his death in 1980. He held visiting appointments at many American and foreign universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, and the Australian National University; and his books have been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Learn More »
Without Guilt & Justice - From Decidophobia to Autonomy (complete text)
The Faith of a Heretic (complete text)
The following are some excerpts and essays from Kaufmann’s books:
The Faith of a Heretic - an excerpt from this book
Goethe and the History of Ideas
How Nietzsche Revolutionized Ethics
Time is an Artist - Epilogue (see photographs from the book)
A Buddhist Text - from the Critique of Religion and Philosophy
Walter Kaufmann website project - by Andrew Spear
