Walter Kaufmann has been teaching philosophy at Princeton
University since 1947. Born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1921, he came
to the U.S. in 1939 and graduated from Williams College in 1941.
During World War II he served first with the U.S. Army Air Force
and then returned to Europe with Military Intelligence. In 1947 he
received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and joined the Princeton
faculty. Since then he has spent two more years in Europe, one of
them in Germany on a Fulbright research grant. He has also been
a visiting professor at Cornell, Columbia, The New School, and the
University of Washington.

His books include NIETZSCHE; THE PORTABLE NIETZSCHE (se-
lected and translated, with an introduction, prefaces, and notes);
EXISTENTIALISM FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO SARTRE (edited, with an intro-
duction, prefaces, and new translations); and CRITIQUE OF RELIGION
AND PHILOSOPHY. He has also translated, with an introduction, JUDA-
ISM AND CHRISTIANITY: ESSAYS BY LEO BAECK, and contributed to
over a dozen books and encyclopedias.

Together with his CRITIQUE, to which it is closely related, the
present volume represents his major effort to date.

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