Walter A. Kaufmann

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest...

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part...

A classic book by one of the twentieth century’s most innovative and adventurous thinkers

From one of the major figures of twentieth-century intellectual life, an incisive critique of faith and reason in the secular age