內容簡介
Karl Jaspers | |
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 Jaspers in 1946 | |
| Born | Karl Theodor Jaspers 23 February 1883 |
| Died | 26 February 1969 (aged 86) Basel, Switzerland |
| Education | University of Heidelberg (MD, 1908) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Neo-Kantianism (early)[1] Existentialism (late) Existential phenomenology[2] (late) |
Main interests | Psychiatry, theology, philosophy of history |
Notable ideas | Axial Age; coining the term Existenzphilosophie; Dasein and Existenz as the two states of being, subject–object split (Subjekt-Objekt-Spaltung); theory of communicative transcendence, limit situation[1] |
Karl Theodor Jaspers (/ˈjæspərz/; German: [ˈkaɐ̯l ˈjaspɐs];[4][5] 23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system. He was often viewed as a major exponent of existentialismin Germany, though he did not accept the label.
Selected bibliography[edit]
- Original German
- Psychologie der Weltanschauungen
- Nikolaus Cusanus
- Translations
- Philosophy of Existence – ISBN 0-8122-1010-7, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971
- Strindberg and Van Gogh: An Attempt of a Pathographic Analysis with Reference to Parallel Cases of Swedenborg and Holderlin – ISBN 0-8165-0608-6
- Reason and Existenz – ISBN 0-87462-611-0
- Way to Wisdom – ISBN 0-300-00134-7
- Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus – ISBN 0-15-683580-0
- Philosophy Is for Everyman
- Man in the Modern Age
- The Origin and Goal of History (1949; English translation: 1953)
- Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity– ISBN 0-8018-5779-1, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (University of Arizona Press, 1965)
- Jaspers, Karl (1953). The Origin and Goal of History. translated by Michael Bullock. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Jaspers, Karl (1955). Reason and Existenz. translated by William Earle. New York: Noonday Press.
- Jaspers, Karl (1958). The Future of Mankind. translated by E. B. Ashton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Jaspers, Karl (1997). General Psychopathology – Volumes 1 & 2. translated by J. Hoenig and Marian W. Hamilton. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.