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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- ONE-Kaufmann: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre -- I. DOSTOEVSKY -- II. KIERKEGAARD -- III. NIETZSCHE -- IV. JASPERS -- V. HEIDEGGER -- VI. SARTRE -- VII. A STORY WITH A MORAL -- TWO-Dostoevsky: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND -- THREE-Kierkegaard: ON HIMSELF -- 1. On His Mission -- 2. On His Works -- 3. On His "Mode of Existence" -- 4. "That Individual" -- FOUR-Nietzsche: "LIVE DANGEROUSLY" -- 1. "The Challenge of Every Great Philosophy" -- 2. "The Gay Science" -- 3. On Free Death -- 4. The Beginning of "The Will to Power" -- 5. From "Ecce Homo" -- FIVE-Rilke: THE NOTES OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE -- SIX-Kafka: THREE PARABLES -- 1. An Imperial Message -- 2. Before the Law -- 3. Couriers -- SEVEN-Jaspers: EXISTENZPHILOSOPHIE -- 1. On My Philosophy -- I. THE COURSE OF MY DEVELOPMENT -- II. MAKING TRADITION OUR OWN -- III. DRIVES TO THE BASIC QUESTIONS -- IV. MY WORKS -- V. EPILOGUE -- 2. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- I. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS -- THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION -- II. KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE -- III. MEANING OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SITUATION PRODUCED BY KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE -- 3. The Encompassing -- I. THE ENCOMPASSING WHICH WE ARE: EMPIRICAL EXISTENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS AS SUCH, SPIRIT -- II. THE ENCOMPASSING AS BEING ITSELF -- WORLD AND TRANSCENDENCE -- III. EXISTENZ, ANIMATION AND GROUND OF ALL MODES OF THE ENCOMPASSING -- IV. REASON: THE BOND BETWEEN THE VARIOUS MODES OF THE ENCOMPASSING -- V. REASON AND EXISTENZ -- VI. REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FORM OF THIS BASIC IDEA -- VII. PHILOSOPHICAL RESULT -- EIGHT-Martin Heidegger: THE WAY BACK INTO THE GROUND OF METAPHYSICS -- NINE-Sartre: EXISTENTIALISM -- 1. The Wall -- 2. Self-Deception -- I. SELF-DECEPTION AND FALSEHOOD -- II. PATTERNS OF SELF-DECEPTION -- III. THE "FAITH" OF SELF-DECEPTION -- 3. Portrait of the Anti-Semite

"Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring it among the most vital and radical expressions of the human mind. Beginning with an autobiographical prologue that traces his evolution from religious believer to "heretic," the book touches on theology, organized religion, morality, suffering, and death--all examined from the perspective of a "quest for honesty." Kaufmann also subjects philosophy's faith in truth, reason, and absolute morality to the same heretical treatment. The resulting exploration of the faiths of a nonbeliever in a secular age is as fresh and challenging as when it was first published"--Page [4] of cover

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses