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Walter Kaufmann : philosopher, humanist, heretic
\"The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked by breathtaking erudition and a provocative essayistic style. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American readers to existentialism. Until now, no book has examined his intellectual legacy. Stanley Corngold provides the first in-depth study of Kaufmann's thought, covering all his major works. He shows how Kaufmann speaks to many issues that concern us today, such as the good of philosophy, the effects of religion, the persistence of tragedy, and the crisis of the humanities in an age of technology. Few scholars in modern times can match Kaufmann's range of interests, from philosophy and literature to intellectual history and comparative religion, from psychology and photography to art and architecture. Corngold provides a heartfelt portrait of a man who, to an extraordinary extent, transfigured his personal experience in the pages of his books.This original study, both appreciative and critical, is the definitive intellectual life of one of the twentieth century's most engaging yet neglected thinkers. It will introduce Kaufmann to a new generation of readers and serves as a fitting tribute to a scholar's incomparable libido sciendi, or lust for knowledge.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The faith of a heretic
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 account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring it among the most vital and radical expressions of the human mind. Beginning with an autobiographical prologue that traces his evolution from religious believer to \"heretic,\" the book touches on theology, organized religion, morality, suffering, and death—all examined from the perspective of a \"quest for honesty.\" Kaufmann also subjects philosophy's faith in truth, reason, and absolute morality to the same heretical treatment. The resulting exploration of the faiths of a nonbeliever in a secular age is as fresh and challenging as when it was first published. In a new foreword, Stanley Corngold vividly describes the intellectual and biographical milieu of Kaufmann’s provocative book
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The faith of a heretic
\"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 account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring it among the most vital and radical expressions of the human mind. Beginning with an autobiographical prologue that traces his evolution from religious believer to \"heretic,\" the book touches on theology, organized religion, morality, suffering, and death--all examined from the perspective of a \"quest for honesty.\" Kaufmann also subjects philosophy's faith in truth, reason, and absolute morality to the same heretical treatment. The resulting exploration of the faiths of a nonbeliever in a secular age is as fresh and challenging as when it was first published\"--Page [4] of cover.
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Hölderlin in Frankfurt
Once, some years ago, Corngold's was invited to Frankfurt to an annual meeting of the Holderlin Society of Germany. The conference was subtitled \"Trans-Atlantic\"--transatlantic only in the sense that the late eminent Germanist Cyrus Hamlin of Yale and himself had been asked to attend. His titular role was \"Diskussionsleiter der drei Plenarvorträge\" (moderator of the discussion of the three keynote addresses), which normally means saying to an audience: \"You ... and then ... you,\" after scribbling down his or her name. \"Herr/Frau Professor Dr. Ignoto/Ignota,\" and so forth. He believes that the society's interest in having us was to hew a path to American funding. It was raining; the meeting was to be held in a former monastery--not his preferred venue for close reading--and he had a terrible foreboding that one of the speakers in his panel, the savant Christoph Jamme, would not appear and that he would be the one to step into his shoes.
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Lambent traces
On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story \"The Judgment,\" which came out of him \"like a regular birth.\" This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night.
InLambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring \"the limits of the human.\" At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by noting--with incomparable irony--their virtual impossibility.
At times Kafka's passion for personal transcendence as a writer entered into a torturous and witty conflict with his desire for another sort of transcendence, one driven by a modern Gnosticism. This struggle prompted him continually to scrutinize different kinds of mediation, such as confessional writing, the dream, the media, the idea of marriage, skepticism, asceticism, and the imitation of death.Lambent Traces: Franz Kafkaconcludes with a reconstruction and critique of the approaches to Kafka by such major critics as Adorno, Gilman, and Deleuze and Guattari..
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A Meditation on Prizes
The works of Nobel prizewinners in literature in recent years answer to the concern of the Swedish Academy that they reflect a courteous leftist view, tinged with a discreet anti-Americanism, on contemporary issues of justice. Literary invention is not a natural-born citizen of the real, but it can be naturalized by prize money, in a certain sense not unlike immigrants who can obtain citizenship in Malta, and thereby access to the European Union, for the price of 650,000 euros.
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A Conversation on Translation
The translator of a work means to bring to light \"the form truly intended\"-and here, Corngold glosses the words \"truly intended\" to refer to the intention that informs the work and not, supposing it recoverable, something in the mind of the author during the act of writing. In another sense, it might be interesting to think of the translation as a dream of the original. The translation presents itself with a prima facie clarity of feature.
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