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Infidels,
Freethinkers, Humanists, and Unbelievers |
Hollingdale,
R. J. (1930 - ) |
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| "I
admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima
will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness
of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have
to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that
God is not out there."
--R.
J. Hollingdale
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Reginald
John (R.J.) Hollingdale was best known as a biographer, and a translator
of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of Friedrich
Nietzsche, Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffman, Lichtenberg, and Schopenhauer.
Hollingdale was also elected president of The Friedrich Nietzsche
Society in 1989. Along with Walter Kaufmann, he was responsible
for rehabilitating Nietzsche's reputation in the English-speaking
world after the World War II.
Known
as "Reg", Hollingdale dropped out of school at the age
of 16 in order to join the RAF. After paying his way through private
German lessons, and immersing himself in German literature and
philosophy, Hollingdale earned the respect of readers and academics
with his translations and studies of German cultural figures.
Despite not possessing a degree, Hollingdale was elected president
of a scholarly society, and was a visiting scholar at the University
of Melbourne in 1991-1992. |
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