Foreign thinker
Karl Jaspers
Karl JaspersPhilosophyGerman1883–1969
It is in limit situations that man comes to himself; there, where he confronts death, suffering, guilt, and chance, he either becomes nothing or recovers his Existenz.
Life and Thought
Karl Theodor Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and existentialist philosopher who examined fundamental human experiences from a philosophical perspective. After studying medicine, he taught philosophy and left behind significant works in the fields of psychiatry and existential philosophy.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures16 titles
General Psychopathology
The Psychology of Worldviews
Philosophy, in Three Volumes
The Spiritual Condition of the Age
Nietzsche: An Introduction to Understanding His Philosophizing
Reason and Existence
Philosophical Logic
The Beginning and End of History
The Problem of Guilt
The Idea of the University
Great Philosophers
Philosophy of Existence
My Philosophical Biography
Nietzsche and Christianity
The Nature of Psychotherapy
Tragedy Is Not Enough
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