1st Edition

Religion from Tolstoy to Camus

Edited By Walter Kaufmann Copyright 1994
494 Pages
by Routledge

494 Pages
by Routledge

479 Pages
by Routledge

Walter Kaufmann devoted his life to exploring the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts. Deeply skeptical about the human and moral benets of modern secularism, he also criticized the quest for certainty pursued through dogma. Kaufmann saw a risk of loss of authenticity in what he described as unjustied retreats into the past. This is a compilation of signicant texts on... Read more
Introduction; 2: Tolstor; 3: Dostoevsky; 4: Pius IX; 5: Leo XIII; 6: Nietzsche; 7: Clifford; 8: James; 9: Royce; 10: Wilde; 11: Freud; 12: Cohen; 13: Enslin; 14: Niemöller; 15: Hay; 16: BARTH and BRUNNER; 17: Pius XII; 18: Maritain; 19: Tillich; 20: Wisdom; 21: Schweitzer; 22: Buber; 23: Camus; 24: John XXIII; 25: Mctaggart; 26: FLEW and HARE and MITCHELL

Biography

Walter Kaufmann