Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before? I am he who walks the States with a barb’d tongue, questioning every one I meet, Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like … WHITMAN: Piety and conformity to them that like, KANT: All the interest of my reason (speculative as well as practical) comes together in the following three questions: JEREMIAH: They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. One killed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942, Who volunteered in 1914 and was shot off his horseīoth Oberleutnant, Iron Cross, First Class, 1914–18, This book has been composed in Janson Text Library of Congress Control Number 2014951277īritish Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Original cloth edition published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961įirst Princeton University Press paperback edition, with a new foreword by Stanley Corngold, 2015 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press,Ħ Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University PressĤ1 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

In a new foreword, Stanley Corngold vividly describes the intellectual and biographical milieu of Kaufmann's provocative book.Ĭopyright © 2015 by the Walter Kaufmann Copyright Trustįoreword copyright © 2015 by Princeton University Press The resulting exploration of the faiths of a nonbeliever in a secular age is as fresh and challenging as when it was first published. 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.

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. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion.

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann.

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