name: Walter Kaufmann
birth_date: 1921-07-01 00:00:00
death_date: 1980-09-04 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Philosophy
influences: Blaise Pascal, Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Homer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georg Wilhelm 
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about: Walter Arnold Kaufmann 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, and a translation of most of Goethe's Faust. Walter Arnold Kaufmann 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, and a translation of most of Goethe's Faust. ...more