Karl Jaspers: 8 books

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. “Are the German people guilty?” These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention...

First published in 1965, this collection of three essays by influential German philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the response of the philosophical mind to the world of reality, with the search for truth. In Leonardo, this search is shown in the thinking and the works of a supreme artist whose means...

Comunemente si crede che con il celebre motto «Deus sive natura» Spinoza abbia voluto identificare Dio e realtà materiale, mentre, secondo Jaspers, il filosofo olandese suggerisce che per l’uomo è possibile entrare in contatto con la trascendenza nell’esistenza e nei fenomeni che ne costituiscono...

Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was speaking in Germany for the last time. Jaspers...

In questo articolo Jaspers esamina le basi filosofiche della psicopatologia, considerandole un riferimento imprescindibile per una pratica medica che non voglia ridursi a un approccio meramente tecnico-scientifico con il paziente. In particolare, Jaspers analizza tutti quei concetti che ruotano attorno...

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

First published in English in 1953, this important book from eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the philsophy of the history of mankind. More specifically, its avowed aim is to assist in heightening our awareness of the present by placing it within the framework of the long obscurity of prehistory...

Il filosofo e psichiatra tedesco Jaspers (1883 – 1969) ha dato con la sua opera un notevole impulso alle riflessioni nei campi della psichiatria, della filosofia, della teologia e della politica. Filosofia, uscito nel 1931, è il suo testo fondamentale, che raccoglie la summa del suo pensiero. Oggi...