In the MySpace.com group "Walter Kaufmann" I show many pictures that I have taken of his books.  Here I am showing CD-ROM pictures that I took with a small digital camera when I was trying to produce a good picture for the Walter Kaufmann page at Friendster.com.  Walter Kaufmann was working on a trilogy, DISCOVERING THE MIND, when he died in 1980.  The final volume, FREUD versus ADLER and JUNG, appeared in 1981.  Walter Kaufmann edited THE PORTABLE NIETZSCHE and translated many of Nietzsche's major works into English.  There has been a scholarly tradition, particularly among the English, to portray Nietzsche as an evil genius.  Walter Kaufmann utilized a philosophical approach, apotheosizing great thinkers and implying that quite a lot of useful information could be obtained from studying the works of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Freud, but that the discovery of the mind had been mucked up by Kant, Heidegger, and Jung.

On the political scene, greatness is more closely linked to the heights of ambivalence recognized by those who study Nietzsche for lessons in wold-historical irony.  In 1995, a year after Richard Nixon's death, I made a large caricature of Nixon using the "Why is this dead man laughing?" picture in the April, 1995 issue of Esquire magazine as my model.  The mirror above my bathroom sink, which captures me taking pictures of an enlarged scanned image of Walter Kaufmann scanned from the back flap of his final set of books, also shows the caricature of Nixon laughing.  The picture of a hand is supposed to be like a cartoon representation of patting Walter Kaufmann on the head in the series of two pictures which show the hand.  Greatness in politics, based on the belief that the president is the only person who can give people what they want because the rest of the political system is hampered by the gridlock of traditional ways of thinking, was certainly a factor in the assassination of Julius Caesar by Roman senators.  There are scientific ways of measuring the popularity of presidents today, but opposing views on how well we can measure if people are getting what they want.

Society is largely a popularity contest, and the idea that truth is a women can be funny, as I attempted to illustrate in the intellectual pin-up girl sketch that tops all the pages at this website, can be as unpopular as jokes which are not suitable to be printed in the morning paper, if we adopt Nietzsche's point of view in THE GAY SCIENCE section 64 about the nature of the things we have to believe to carry on with things the way they are now.