From Shakespeare to Existentialism : : Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynbee / / Walter A. Kaufmann.

A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature.

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1980
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface (1979)
  • Preface (1960)
  • Preface (1959)
  • 1 Shakespeare: Between Socrates and Existentialism
  • 2 Dialogue with a Critic
  • 3 Shakespeare Versus Goethe
  • 4 Goethe and the History of Ideas
  • 5 Goethe's Faith and Faust's Redemption
  • 6 Goethe Versus Romanticism
  • 7 The Hegel Myth and Its Method
  • 8 The Young Hegel and Religion
  • 9 Hegel: Contribution and Calamity
  • 10 Kierkegaard
  • 11 How Nietzsche Revolutionized Ethics
  • 12 Nietzsche and Rilke
  • 13 Art, Tradition, and Truth
  • 14 Philosophy Versus Poetry
  • 15 Jaspers' Relation to Nietzsche
  • 16 Freud
  • 17 Heidegger's Castle
  • 18 German Thought After World War II
  • 19 Toynbee and Super-History
  • 20 Toynbee and Religion
  • Bibliography
  • Index