3 0 obj During his life he opened new avenues of thought in the philosophy of history, philosophy of religion… Fritz Kaufmann: Karl Jaspers and A Philosophy of Communication Jeanne Hersch: Jaspers' Conception of Tradition Bibliography of the Writings of Karl Jaspers (To Spring 1957), Philosophy | Faner Hall, 3065, Carbondale, IL 62901 P: 618-536-6641 F: 618-453-7428. Gerhard Knauss: The Concept of the "Encompassing" in Jaspers' Philosophy View your shopping cart | Browse Penn Press titles in | Join our mailing list. All Rights Reserved. Death, suffering, chance, guilt, struggle, and the insight that "man is always more than what he knows or can know" are the themes Jaspers handled with scientific dexterity. SIU Board of Trustees >> endobj In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, … [/ICCBased 3 0 R] He was a psychopathologist, a philosophical anthropologist, and a political scientist. yr=d.getFullYear(); Karl Jaspers: Reply to My Critics /Filter /FlateDecode Paul Ricoeur: The Relation of Jaspers' Philosophy to Religion %PDF-1.7
Jean Wahl: Notes on Some Relations of Jaspers to Kierkegaard and Heidegger In this short book Jaspers provides a corrective for the popular view of existentialism as a pessimistic, irrationalist philosophy. << Karl Jasper’s Concept of Existence. endobj
Soren Holm: Jaspers' Philosophy of Religion [43] Whether problems of the philosophy of existence can inasmuch be understood as the question of philosophy in general remains a separate subject which is only later legitimately delivered to the history of philosophy by Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, each in his own range of philosophical thinking. Karl Jaspers. �MFk����� t,:��.FW������8���c�1�L&���ӎ9�ƌa��X�:��
�r�bl1� 2 0 obj if (yr!=2003) For the reader this means that Jaspers' thought is transmitted as an animating force. In Philosophy (3 vols, 1932), Jaspers gave his view of the history of philosophy and introduced his major themes. Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)—"founder of German Existentialism" (Martin Heidegger) and "a lucid and flexible intelligence in the service of a genuine and passionate concern for human life" (William Barrett)—is one of the great thinkers of modern times. He transformed philosophy into a systematic exposition of human nature, while creating a viable matrix for future ideas. Eduard Baumgarten: The "Radical Evil" in Jaspers' Philosophy Hannah Arendt: Jaspers As Citizen of the World <>
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He was a psychopathologist, a philosophical anthropologist, and a political scientist. Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. Julius Löwenstein: Judaism in Jaspers' Thought Helmut Rehder: Literary Criticism and the Existentialism of Jaspers Karl Jaspers created a uniquely humanistic existentialism. Karl Jaspers created a uniquely humanistic existentialism. Translated by Richard F. Grabau. It is a tribute to Jaspers that they all address their criticism to him directly--as though he were in the room with them. @~ (* {d+��}�G�͋љ���ς�}W�L��$�cGD2�Q���Z4 E@�@����� �A(�q`1���D ������`'�u�4�6pt�c�48.��`�R0��)� Hannah Arendt, Walter Kaufmann, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean Wahl are among the 24 scientists and scholars who examine every major aspect of Jaspers' work in this book. He maintains that it is, rather part of mainstream of Western philosophy—the form that philosophy has taken in our day. John Hennig: Karl Jaspers' Attitude Towards History Ebook editions are available from selected online vendors. Karl Jaspers saw being as polarity: It is the all-embracing out of which all comes to exist, but it is also the vast consciousness within. Johannes Thyssen: The Concept of "Foundering" in Jaspers' Philosophy The depth and breadth of his philosophy is awesome. document.write(yr); Ernst Moritz Manasse: Max Weber's Influence on Jaspers James Collins: Jaspers on Science and Philosophy He was the son of a banker and arepresentative of the parliament (Landtagesabgeordneten), Carl WilhelmJaspers (1850–1940) and Henriette Tantzen (1862–1941), who also camefrom a family that was involved in local parliament. The book serves three purposes today: it brings the many strands of the existential movement into focus; it provides an overview of Jaspers's own philosophical position; and it demonstrates by example that philosophy need not be irrational, antiscientific, journalistic, or homiletic in order to be existential and engagé. Ludwig B. Lefebre: The Psychology of Karl Jaspers Beginning with modern science and empiricism, Jaspers points out that as we question reality, we confront borders that an empirical (or scientific) method simpl… During his life he opened new avenues of thought in the philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, and literary criticism. Karl Jaspers, in full Karl Theodor Jaspers, (born Feb. 23, 1883, Oldenburg, Ger.—died Feb. 26, 1969, Basel, Switz. 1 0 obj
Philosophy | Faner Hall, 3065, Carbondale, IL 62901, http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/philosophy_jaspers.htm. Johannes Pfeiffer: On Karl Jaspers' Interpretation of Art William Earle: Jaspers' Philosophical Anthropology Existence in one sense refers to the sum total of reality, and in another sense, the elusive characteristic of being which differentiates real things from fictional ones.7For Jasper, Existence as it pertains to Being is called Encompassing. ?���:��0�FB�x$ !���i@ڐ���H���[EE1PL���⢖�V�6��QP��>�U�(j Kurt Kolle: Jaspers as Psychopathologist Jaspers’s familymilieu was strongly influenced by the political culture of North Germanliberalism, and he often referred to the c… Karl Theodor Jaspers was born on 23rdFebruary 1883 inthe North German town of Oldenburg near the North Sea, where hisancestors had lived for generations. Privacy Policy | EOE *1 J�� "6DTpDQ��2(���C��"��Q��D�qp�Id�y�͛��~k����g�}ֺ ����LX ��X��ň��g`� l �p��B�F�|،l���� ��*�?�� ����Y"1 P������\�8=W�%�Oɘ�4M�0J�"Y�2V�s�,[|��e9�2��s��e���'�9���`���2�&c�tI�@�o�|N6 (��.�sSdl-c�(2�-�y �H�_��/X������Z.$��&\S�������M���07�#�1ؙY�r f��Yym�";�8980m-m�(�]����v�^��D���W~�
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�H�. In his later work, as a reaction to the disruptions of Nazi rule in Germany and World War II, he searched for a new unity of thinking that he … "—Library Journal. /N 3 His many books—best known among them are The Great Philosophers, The Future of Mankind, and The Question of German Guilt—have been translated into every Western language. Paper 1971 | ISBN 9780812210101 | $24.95s | Outside the Americas £19.99.