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Walter A. Kaufmann
When the author wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. This title…
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Friedrich Nietzsche,Walter Kaufmann
The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a 100 years ago. This title includes translations of…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The controversial German philosopher of the nineteenth century elucidates his concept of the superman in this first systematic treatment of whole philosophy.
Provides insight into Nietzsche’s philosophical thought on the death of God and the eternal recurrence in this translation of one if his major works. Bibliogs.
Walter Kaufmann
Explores such themes as philosophy versus poetry, post-World War II German thought, art, tradition, and truth in a collection of essays.
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The Description for this book, Critique of Religion and Philosophy, will be forthcoming.
Presents five central works by an important and readable philosopher of modern times. This title is translated by Walter Kaufmann, with a fresh introduction by Peter Gay.
Walter Arnold Kaufmann
When this book was originally published, twenty poets were represented. For this edition, new material has been added, including additional poems by Goethe, Heine, and Nietzsche, as well as five…
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The continuing discovery of important Hegel manuscripts and advances in the criticism of Hegel’s works have set the stage for a major reevaluation of one of the greatest philosophers of…
Stanley Corngold
The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled…
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Provides a description and preservation of Oriental notational systems, the study of which makes possible understanding of Eastern art music and demonstrates its character to the student more meaningfully than…
Few philosophers have had as much influence as Hegel
Previous work included the development of a theoretical model, the so-called Tension Chord Model, which allows a comprehensive description of the load-deforma tion behaviour of tension members in non-prestressed and…
Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980
This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter…
Among the vast body of literature that has grown around Rett syndrome, this volume is the first to be aimed at both clinicians and researchers. It presents a comprehensive overview…
Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
James Hughes,Walter Kaufmann
This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such…
Walter Kaufmann,Ivan Soll
This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of…
In this second volume of a trilogy that represents a landmark contribution to philosophy, psychology, and intellectual history, Walter Kaufmann has selected three seminal figures of the modem period who…
Paul Gottfried
Walter Kaufmann devoted his life to exploring the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts
Marie Curie,Walter Kaufmann
Untersuchungen uber die radioaktiven Substanzen von Marie Curie - UEbersetzt und mit Litteratur-Erganzungen versehen von W. Kaufmann ist ein unveranderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu…
Forrest E. Baird,Walter Kaufmann
First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird’s revision of Philosophic Classics continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where…
This book represents the towering medieval thinkers-Augustine and Thomas Aquinas-discussing a variety of topics, along with representative texts of other medieval figures. It is useful for those who are interested…
W. G. Hegel
Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times. This summary of Hegel’s system of philosophy is now available in English translation…
Eugene Bardach,Robert A. Kagan
What is regulation? Under what circumstances is it needed? What forms should it take? Such questions are especially relevant at a time in United States history when governmental involvement in…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of Faust is included with Goethe’s classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Walter Kaufmann
Contains Nietzsche’s philosphical work based on the belief that the object of mankind should lie in it’s highest individuals. .
Gathers Nietzsche’s major writings, including The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo, as well as aphorisms and letters.
Presents and analyzes two major works on ethics, dealing with morality, goodness, guilt, and ascetic ideals.
