Karl Jaspers: A Biography--Navigations in Truth - Hardcover

Kirkbright, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300102429 ISBN 13: 9780300102420

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Throughout his life, German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883 1969) recorded his experiences and reflections in diaries and correspondence. This comprehensive biography is the first to explore these extensive and candid private writings that illuminate not only Jaspers’ life and relationships but also the ideas he proposed in Way to Wisdom, The Question of German Guilt, and many other published works.
Suzanne Kirkbright provides a sensitive and intimate portrait of the philosopher whose work on truth, personal integrity, and the capacity for communication contrasted acutely with the erosion of such values in Germany in his lifetime. She describes how Jaspers’ Jewish wife, Gertrud, influenced his thinking, the loss in 1937 of his professorship at Heidelberg University, and his relationship with such celebrated colleagues as Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Kirkbright examines the unshakeable ethical content of Jaspers’ philosophy and demonstrates his unique and scrupulous personal adherence to the philosophical principles he espoused.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Also available from YUP: Way to Wisom: An Introduction to Philosophy.

About the Author:

Suzanne Kirkbright is lecturer in German at Aston University, Birmingham, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300102429
• ISBN 13: 9780300102420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400