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| Author | Walter Kaufmann |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 532 (2013 edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0691160269 |
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950; second edition 1956; third edition 1968; fourth edition 1974; fifth edition 2013) is a book about the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by the philosopher Walter Kaufmann. The book, first published by Princeton University Press, was influential and is considered a classic study. Kaufmann has been credited with helping to transform Nietzsche's reputation after World War II by dissociating him from Nazism, and making it possible for Nietzsche to be taken seriously as a philosopher. However, Kaufmann has been criticized for presenting Nietzsche as an existentialist, and for other details of his interpretation.