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 for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton University.He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Hegel.

birth date

1921-07-01

birth place

Germany, Weimar Republic, Freiburg im Breisgau

death date

1980-09-04

death place

Princeton New Jersey

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Alexander Nehamas, Frithjof Bergmann, Ivan Soll, Richard Schacht

influenced by

Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

main interest

Existentialism, Philosophy of religion, Tragedy

philosophicalSchool

Continental philosophy