Stanley Corngold

The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life, Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American...

The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life, Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all...

A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States. In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as "The greatest living man of letters," Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where,...