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Karl Jaspers

Physician, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Thinker

Kurt Salamun (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 145 Seiten

2022
J.B. Metzler, Part of Springer Nature - Springer-Verlag GmbH
9783476058959 (ISBN)

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This book paints a brief picture of Karl Jaspers' unusual life and philosophy. The reader gets to know a brave personality who had to face a life between extremes. Threatened by an incurable disease and harassed by the Nazi regime, Jaspers nevertheless succeeds in building a fruitful work as a psychiatrist, researcher, academic teacher, philosopher and political writer and living an unusually happy marriage in the process. The reader is introduced to the main themes of his thinking: the meaning of life in borderline situations, interpersonal communication, God, the meaning of history and the defense of democracy. His criticism of illiberal totalitarian ways of thinking,

Kurt Salamun is Professor i. R. for philosophy at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.

1. Stages of an arduous but happy life.- 2. The encounter with two controversial thinkers: Max Weber and Martin Heidegger.- 3. What is the meaning of being human? - 4. Liberal ethos of humanity, morality and education.- 5. Transcendence and cipher metaphysics instead of religious belief in a personal God.- 6. Philosophical belief in reason as an alternative to religious belief in revelation.- 7. History and the Axial Age in world history.- 8. World history of philosophy and the vision of a future "world philosophy" .- 9. On the understanding of politics.- 10. Politics, reason and democratic culture.- 11. Provocative statements on German politics of the time.- 12. On the diversity of Jaspers' thinking.- 13. Effect and topicality.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	XI, 145 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Stuttgart
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Axis time • Existentialism • Existential Philosophy • Heidegger, Martin • Jaspers, Karl • transcendence • World philosophy
ISBN-13	9783476058959 / 9783476058959
Zustand	Neuware