Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others

This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.

Walter Kaufmann was a philosopher and poet, as well as a renowned translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. His books include Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, From Shakespeare to Existentialism, and Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947 until his death in 1980. He held visiting appointments at many American and foreign universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, and the Australian National University; and his books have been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

Preface to the Expanded Edition
Preface
One: Kaufmann: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
Two: Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Three: Kierkegaard: The First Existentialist
1. On His Mission
2. On His Works
3. On His Mode of Existence
4. "That Individual"
5. Dread and Freedom
6. Authority
7. "Truth Is Subjectivity"
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: Ortega: "Man Has No Nature"
Eight: Jaspers: Existenzphilosophie
1. On My Philosophy
2. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
3. The Encompassing
Nine: Heidegger: The Quest for Being
1. My Way to Phenomenology
2. What is Metaphysics?
3. The Way Back into the Ground of Metaphysics
Ten: Sartre: Existentialism
1. The Wall
2. Self-Deception
3. Portrait of the Antisemite
4. Existentialism is a Humanism
5. Marxism and Existentialism
Eleven: Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Notes
Sources and Acknowledgments