A lifetime of intense productivity, spent engaging, among others, with Goethe, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, continues to shape the discursive agenda of our own day. Kaufmann’s books continue to be read his translations and anthologies are in use some sixty years after their publication. His achievement is not a byway or backwater in intellectual history: it is still visible in the humanities. There is no comparable study of Kaufmann examining his place in cultural memory. For the moment, Corngold’s effort is sui generis. The book has the potential to renew interest in Kaufmann (1921–80) and establish his rank as a major writer of his generation and even to revivify the humanities in the present. Stanley Corngold has written a 744-page book on Walter Kaufmann, a Princeton professor, and prolific, charismatic writer and philosopher.
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