1st Edition

Karl Jaspers Politics and Metaphysics

By Dr Chris Thornhill Copyright 2002
284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy. Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological,... Read more
1. Karl Jaspers's Philosophy: The Basic Terms
2. Jaspers and Kant: The Ideas of Existence
3. Jaspers and Weber: Transcendent Responsibilities
4. Jaspers, Dilthey and Simmel: Experience and History
5. Jaspers and Heidegger: The Anthropologies of Existence
6. Theology or Anthropology? Jaspers, Religion and the Revealed Law
7. Republican Existence. Jaspers and Post-War Politics

Biography

Dr Chris Thornhill

'Informative and highly readable ... fascinating.'Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews