Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
by Walter A. Kaufmann

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
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Author: Walter A. Kaufmann
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1975-02-01
ISBN: 0691019835
Number of pages: 532
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Book Review: Kaufmann's Nietzsche
Summary: 2 Stars

For a man who translated ten of Nietzsche's books, Walter Kaufmann exhibits a poor understanding of what the great philosopher said. He almost seems bent on turning Nietzsche into a Christian as well as an acolyte of Socrates's. It's best to stick to Nietzsche's own books!

Summary of Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

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 proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy.

Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity.

Many scholars in the past half century have taken issue with some of Kaufmann's interpretations, but the book ranks as one of the most influential accounts ever written of any major Western thinker.

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