Books by Karl Jaspers

In "General Psychopathology", perhaps his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that the realm of the human must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings.

Deals with the philosophy of the history of mankind. This work aims to assist in heightening our awareness of the present by placing it within the framework of the long obscurity of prehistory and the boundless realm of possibilities which lie within the undecided future.

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsübersicht -- Einleitung -- Erster Teil: Grenzen der Daseinsordnung -- Zweiter Teil: Der Wille im Ganzen -- Dritter Teil: Verfall und Möglichkeit des Geistes -- Vierter Teil: Wie heute das Menschsein begriffen wird -- Fünfter Teil: Was aus dem Menschen werden kann -- Front matter 2 -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Geisteswissenschaften -- Naturwissenschaften -- Technik -- Sammlung Göschen / Bandnummernfolge -- Autoregister

i Aus den zahllosen Abhandlungen zum Werk Friedrich Nietzsche ragt die Gesamtdarstellung von Karl Jaspers immer noch als einzigartige Leistung heraus. Nietzsche wird als groer Philosoph' historisch und systematisch umfassend vorgestellt. Von unverminderter Aktualitat ist das souverane, auf alle verfugbaren medizinischen Daten gestutzte Urteil des Psychiaters Jaspers uber Nietzsches Krankheit."e; Prof. Dr. Volker Gerhardt

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Presents a philosophical examination of the contemporary state and nature of mankind. This title focuses upon such subjects as the tension between mass-order and individual human life, our conception of human life and the potential for mankind's future existence.

A collection of three essays that deals with the response of the philosophical mind to the world of reality, with the search for truth. It features an essay that study Descartes in three parts: analysing Descartes' philosophical operation, Descartes' Method, and the position of his philosophy within the historical context of philosophical thought.

But not unambiguously; many functionally suitable pieces are present in numerous, only slightly varied repetitions, others reveal themselves as precious and unique forms, as though each were meant to furnish a cornerstone somewhere or a keystone for an arch."-Karl Jaspers, from the introduction