Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) is one of the most original and seminal thinkers of the twentieth century. Rich in ideas, vast in scope, far-ranging and complex, his work is distributed over a large corpus of writing. In fact, it is just the very size and the range of his thought that have tended to make J[...]

Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.

2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology). Jaspers was working at a time much like our own - with rapid expansion in the neuro[...]

First published in English in 1933, this detailled philosophical examination of the contemporary state and nature of mankind is a seminal work by influential German philsopher Karl Jaspers. Elucidating his theories on a variety of topics pertaining to contemporary and future human existence, Man in [...]

The thought of the late Karl Jaspers, co-founder of the existentialist movement, has long exerted a powerful influence on world opinion. But, surprisingly, though translations of his writings have appeared in over 160 editions in 16 countries, his strictly philosophical work has hitherto been largel[...]

Nietzsche claimed to be a philosopher of the future, but he was appropriated as a philosopher of Nazism. His work inspired a long study by Martin Heidegger and essays by a host of lesser disciples attached to the Third Reich. In 1935, however, Karl Jaspers set out to "marshall against the National S[...]

The contributions to this volume, selected papers from several conferences held in conjunction with the centenary of Karl Jaspers's birth, constitute the first reassessment of his significance as philosopher and scholar since his death in 1969. The contributions are grouped in eight parts, according[...]

Jaspers sieht die moderne Gesellschaft in einem Widerstreit. Sie errichtet

sich als Massenordnung zur technischen Daseinsfürsorge einer Vielzahl von

Menschen und zerstört damit gleichzeitig jene Welt von Schicksal und Autorität,

Vertrautheit, Nähe und Ent[...]

Karl Jaspers gilt als ein Philosoph ohne schriftstellerischen Ehrgeiz, obwohl er der meistgelesene Philosoph der jungen Bundesrepublik war. Hannah Arendt ist die erste gewesen, die zwischen seiner Art zu schreiben und seinem weltb rgerlichen Denken eine Verbindung hergestellt hat. Diesem Hinweis geh[...]

Karl Jaspers vertrat ein Denken, das die Wirklichkeit verstehen lehrt und das aus diesem Verstehen die Menschen verändert. Daher ist seine Philosophie auch heute noch so modern. In diesem Band sind Auszüge aus seinem Werk versammelt, die als Denkanstöße dienen sollen. Die Auswahl vermittelt eine[...]