From Shakespeare to Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynbee

“A bracing piece of work. It blows like a cold wind through the airless corridors and cobwebs of much present philosophy.”—George Steiner, The Economist

“Kaufmann is a first-rate literary critic, and his fresh insights into Shakespeare, Goethe, Nietzsche, and Freud can deepen the insights of every discriminating student of literature.”—Llewellyn Jones, The Humanist

“A very pugnacious book, and none the worse for that. Mr. Kaufmann has a vigorous mind and many things to say which we do not often hear.”—Philip Toynbee, The Observer

“[From Shakespeare to Existentialism] frequently enlightens, sometimes exasperates, but it never soothes one to rest with the comfortable assertion that all points of view can be reconciled without our deciding among them. In demanding that we choose and that the choice be a responsible one, Kaufmann is existentialist in the most important sense.”—Hazel Barnes, Chicago Review