it wouldn’t be long before Kaufmann would realize how difficult it was to make Nietzsche a forerunner of existentialism but not an existentialist, a timely thinker who must remain untimely.94 At base, this was a fundamental tension within Kaufmann’s text that he was unable to fully resolve. He clearly hoped his Nietzsche would be palatable to American readers, but not as a literary cocktail to cap off the evening. But that is precisely what began to happen after the book’s publication in 1950.Kaufmann
