Another discourse that Kaufmann’s Nietzsche both prepared American readers for and found itself in dialogue with over the course of the 1950s and ’60s was the small but highly visible “Death of God” movement in American theology. Kaufmann later took some credit for the “paradoxical attempt to base a new theology” on his chapter in Nietzsche addressing “The Death of God” and his later Nietzsche translations dealing with relevant themes, but he “took no pride” in his “progeny.”96 His treatment of the death of God emphasized that it was to be understood as “an attempt at a diagnosis of
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