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"The finest introduction to Jaspers's own comprehensive philosophy and to existentialism as a philosophical movement."-John R. Silber "The best single volume to introduce existentialism as a total philosopy."-Library Journal
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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 our time. In this compact discussion of Being, Truth, and Reality he presents what for him is the complete philosophy: "the concentration whereby man becomes himself by sharing in reality."
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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. Read the first page
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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. Read the first page
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Fantastic overview of Jaspers' thought,
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This review is from: Philosophy of Existence (Paperback)
Written between "Philosophie" and "Von der Wahrheit," this slim volume provides a fantastic and surprisingly readable overview of Jaspers' metaphysics. Based on a series of lectures, the text is less technical than Philosophie; however, Jaspers manages to explain the Encompassing, Transcendence, Existenz and Ciphers in moderate detail.I found Grabau's translation much more lucid than the texts included (for instance) within Walter Kaufmann's "Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre." Since Grabau's translation of key terms is similar to E. B. Ashton's translation of Philosophie, I have had no trouble going from one to the other. Overall, I recommend this book for those interested in delving into Jaspers' metaphysics.
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Fantastic overview of Jaspers' thought,
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This review is from: Philosophy of Existence (Paperback)
Written between "Philosophie" and "Von der Wahrheit," this slim volume provides a fantastic and surprisingly readable overview of Jaspers' metaphysics. Based on a series of lectures, the text is less technical than Philosophie; however, Jaspers manages to explain the Encompassing, Transcendence, Existenz and Ciphers in moderate detail.I found Grabau's translation much more lucid than the texts included (for instance) within Walter Kaufmann's "Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre." Since Grabau's translation of key terms is similar to E. B. Ashton's translation of Philosophie, I have had no trouble going from one to the other. Overall, I recommend this book for those interested in delving into Jaspers' metaphysics. |
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