His Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre (1956), a selection of texts which he edited and introduced, helped popularize existentialist philosophy in the United States. He also translated Goethe's Faust and Martin Buber's I and Thou. Hollingdale) Nietzsche's Will to Power (1967), as well as several of his other works. His best-known writings include Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Anti-Christ (1950), Critique of Religion and Philosophy (1958), The Owl and the Nightingale: From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959), The Faith of a Heretic (1961), Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary (1965), Tragedy and Philosophy (1968), Religions in Four Dimensions (1976), Man's Lot (3 vols., 1979), and Discovering the Mind (Trilogy, 1980). He made an attack on theology of all kinds and favored a naturalistic, humanistic approach. Kaufmann was a vigorous opponent of arguments for religion. His main interests were philosophy of religion, social philosophy, and the history of ideas since the 19 th century. He remained at Princeton throughout his career. Christ, and many Christians who encountered the fierce heresy suppression in. Kaufmann began teaching philosophy at Princeton in 1947 and became a full professor in 1962. Contemporary Catholic literature of religious instruction, on the other. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the United States Army Air Forces and Military Intelligence Service. in 1939 and studied at Williams College and Harvard University, where he received his B.A. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Kaufmann was raised as a Lutheran but returned to Judaism.
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