Philosophic Classics, Volume IV: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

by Walter Kaufmann, Forrest E. Baird

Since 1961, Philosophic Classics has provided a generation of students with an anthology of quality in the history of Western philosophy. Using complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this series allows the philosophers to speak directly to the reader.

Genres: Philosophy, Anthologies, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Ethan Zimmerman]

I read only in part. This is a good anthology for 19th century philosophy.