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Philosophy of Existence (Works in Continental Philosophy) Hardcover - 1971

by Jaspers, Karl


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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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  • Title Philosophy of Existence (Works in Continental Philosophy)
  • Author Jaspers, Karl
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2nd printing
  • Pages 99
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
  • Date 1971
  • ISBN 9780812276299

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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Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. A tight copy of the uncommon hardcover first edition. Bound in the original red cloth, just a little soiled. Occasional underlining and a few margin notes in ink. No owner's name or bookplate. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard F. Grabau. First Edition in English of EXISTENZPHILOSOPHIE, originally published by Walter de Gruyter & Co. in Berlin. "PHILOSOPHY OF EXISTENCE, I believe, is the finest introduction to Jasper's own comprehensive philosophy and to existentialism as a philosphical movement." -- John R. Silber.. First Edition in English.. Hard Cover. Good++ condition./No jacket.. 8vo. vii, 99pp..
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