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Walter Kaufmann

Nonfiction

Winter 1957

German Thought Today

By Walter Kaufmann

A decade after World War II, the situation in Germany is almost the exact reverse of what it was after World War I. Then she was economically prostrate and unable […]

A Hundred Years after Kierkegaard

Spring 1956

Kierkegaard

By Walter Kaufmann

That Kierkegaard with his prolific contempt for parsons and professors should at long last have been translated into English largely by a parson and a professor, that is ironical but […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1954

Existentialism Tamed

By Walter Kaufmann

The Existentialist Revolt by Kurt F. Reinhardt. Bruce. $3.50. The Existentialists by James Collins. Henry Regnery. $4.50. The Mind Of Kierkegaard by James Collins. Henry Regnery. $4.50. We have now […]

Nonfiction

Winter 1955

Nietzsche and Rilke

By Walter Kaufmann

This study of Nietzsche and Rilke, and particularly of what they have in common, is meant to throw light on both and also on the relation of philosophy and poetry. […]