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Walter Arnold Kaufmann ({{IPA|de|ˈkaʊfman|lang}}; 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 more than 30 years as a professor at Princeton University. | |||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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He served more than 30 years as a professor at Princeton University. | |||
Walter Arnold Kaufmann ({{IPA|de|ˈkaʊfman|lang}}; July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. He also wrote a 1965 book on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published a translation of Goethe's Faust, and Martin Buber's I and Thou. 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 is renowned as a scholar and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. | |||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(philosopher) Wikipedia: Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)] | |||
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