Goethe's Faust, Part One and Sections from Part Two

by Walter Kaufmann

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1962

About the author

Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton University.

He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Hegel, and a translation of most of Goethe's Faust.

Reviews

[Patrick Day · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the first time I felt i had lost the essence of a play by reading the script. Maybe bc this was part musical? More of classical meter also hurt my enjoyment. Btw I’m the first review of this translation??? THATS CRAZY WHATS UP