Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

walter kaufmann

One of the foremost resources on existentialism from renowned philosopher, poet, and Nietzsche translator Walter Kaufmann—a must-read for philosophers, both armchair and professional.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.

Genres philosophynonfictionhistoryclassicsessaysliteraturepsychologyreferencetheoryanthologies

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 1,1956

This edition

Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Published: March 1, 1975 by New American Library
ISBN: 9780452009301
ASIN: 0452009308
Language: English

About the author

walter kaufmann

Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton University.

He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Hegel, and a translation of most of Goethe's Faust.