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Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre

April 15, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 7 Comments

Walter KaufmannVia openculture.com, check out these lectures by Walter Kaufmann, who did most of the good Nietzsche translations you'd pick up nowadays and was the teacher of Frithjof Bergmann whose name I drop a lot on the show (who was in turn teacher of Robert Solomon).

-Mark Linsenmayer

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Filed Under: Web Detritus Tagged With: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, philosophy blog, sartre, walter kaufmann

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  1. Burl says

    April 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Uh, Mark

    You did not fully mine your linked repository for famous philosophers.

    See Martin on Atheists http://www.openculture.com/2011/03/steve_martin_writes_first_song_for_atheists.html

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  2. Daniel Horne says

    April 15, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    Nice one, Mark. I know Kaufmann is famous for all the Nietzsche scholarship, but I actually discovered him by stumbling across two of his essay collections at a used bookstore:

    “Critique of Religion and Philosophy”:
    http://amzn.com/0691020019

    and

    “From Shakespeare to Existentialism”:
    http://amzn.com/0691013675

    He’s a great prose stylist. Either of these two collections make for a great read.

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  3. Daniel Horne says

    April 15, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    P.S. Not sure if “Critique” is properly an essay collection. I suppose it was intended as a coherent narrative, but any of the chapters can be read independently, and break apart like a good candy bar.

    Reply
  4. Tom says

    April 16, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Thanks for the photo – I’d never seen a pic of him before. Kaufmann is the guy nearly solely responsible for rehabilitating the image of Nietzsche in the Anglo world after N’s appropriation by the Nazis. His translations and introductions to N were important to me and K is a great writer too.

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  5. matth says

    April 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    these were really great, thanks for sharing

    Reply
  6. Moesy Pittounikos says

    August 17, 2011 at 9:29 am

    There is an old Zen saying that goes something like this…

    Before enlightenment, mountains look like mountains and rivers look like rivers.
    When seeking enlightenment, mountains no longer look like mountains and rivers no longer look like rivers.
    On achieving enlightenment, mountains again look like mountains and rivers look like rivers.

    These are my thoughts on Nietzsche.

    You see, when I first read Friedrich Nietzsche, I thought “holy shit, this guy wants to liquidate my grandmother”!
    Then I read Walter Kaufmann’s rehabilitated Nietzsche, and I no longer thought that Friedrich Nietzsche wanted to liquidate my grandmother.
    But today, after reaching satori for myself, I again think, “holy shit, this guy wants to liquidate my grandmother”

    I hope this helps

    Reply

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    […] Nietzsche (e.g. the one I learned from Frithjof, who got it from famed Nietzsche scholar/translator Walter Kaufmann). This is similar to Pirsig’s mistake in dismissing Hegel; like Russell and James, Pirsig got […]

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