Karl Jaspers
Kurt Salamun
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeines, Lexika
Beschreibung
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,
Kundenbewertungen
Jaspers, Karl, World Philosophy, Existential Philosophy, Transcendence, Axis time, Heidegger, Martin, existentialism