Stanley Corngold provides the first in-depth study of Kaufmann's thought, covering all his major works. Until now, no book has examined his intellectual legacy. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American readers to existentialism. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked by breathtaking erudition and a provocative essayistic style. Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life
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