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Philosophy of Existence Paperback - 1971

by Karl Jaspers; Richard F. Grabau (Translator)


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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 used the occasion to offer an account of the cultural and intellectual situation from which existentialism emerged as well as a summary of his own philosophy. The book serves three purposes today: it brings the many strands of the existential movement into focus; it provides an overview of Jaspers's own philosophical position; and it demonstrates by example that philosophy need not be irrational, antiscientific, journalistic, or homiletic in order to be existential and engag. In this short book Jaspers provides a corrective for the popular view of existentialism as a pessimistic, irrationalist philosophy. He maintains that it is, rather part of mainstream of Western philosophy--the form that philosophy has taken in our day.

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THE FIRST ANSWER to the question of being arises from the following basic experience: Whatever becomes an object for me is always a determinate being among others, and only a mode of being.

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  • Title Philosophy of Existence
  • Author Karl Jaspers; Richard F. Grabau (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
  • Date 1971-01-01
  • ISBN 9780812210101 / 0812210107
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
  • Reading level 1220
  • Library of Congress subjects Existentialism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 79133203
  • Dewey Decimal Code 142.7

About the author

Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)--"founder of German Existentialism" (Martin Heidegger) and "a lucid and flexible intelligence in the service of a genuine and passionate concern for human life" (William Barrett)--is one of the great thinkers of modern times. His many books--best known among them are The Great Philosophers, The Future of Mankind, and The Question of German Guilt--have been translated into every Western language.
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