Karl Jaspers Livres

Platon et Saint Augustin : " Ceux qui fondent la philosophie et ne cessent de l'engendrer ". Jaspers analyse l'œuvre de Platon, qui pose les principes de la réflexion sur la connaissance, à partir de laquelle il développe sa méditation sur l'éthique et la politique, puis la pensée de Saint Augustin, qui réfléchit sans relâche aux rapports de Dieu et de la connaissance. Tout en présentant de manière complète ces deux auteurs, il conduit une réflexion globale sur cette notion fondamentale de la philosophie occidentale.

In General Psychopathology, his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that in the realm of the human, the explanation of behavior through the observation of regularity and patterns in it (Erklärende Psychologie) must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relationsexperienced by human beings (Verstehende Psychologie).

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 Jaspers inaccessible. The editors of this volume set out to provide a guided introduction to Jaspers through a systematic organisation of selections from the whole body of his writing. The volume aims to convey an accurate presentation of the content and movement of Jaspers' philosophising and to provide insights into the wide range of his philosophical achievements. The editors provide comments and information on each of the seventy-four selections to help set each piece within the context of the whole of Jaspers' work. This is an invaluable introduction to Karl Jaspers' work for the student and the critical reader.

An introduction to the understanding of philosophy written for the general reader.

English, German (translation)

At the time of his death, Karl Jaspers, a leading existentialism philosopher of modern times, was preparing a universal history of philosophy, of which this book is a part, organized around those philosophers whose thinking has influenced and shaped the history of mankind. Their personalities and ideas from the substance of his work. Hence, he was not writing a history of philosophy in the traditional sense but a presentation of great philosophical ideas that have helped from our concepts of truth and reason, freedom and justice, our beliefs about God and the universe, good and evil, and right from wrong. This approach necessarily includes and emphasizes the religious thinkers also. Professor Jaspers aimed to lead the reader into proximity with the truly great and seminal thinkers and to expose him to the particular truth for which one stands--from back cover.