The Origin and Goal of History

ISBN-13: 9780367679859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 314 str.

Karl Jaspers; Christopher Thornhill

Opis

The Origin and Goal of History provides a crucial philosophical framework for the liberal renewal of German intellectual life, and European intellectual life more widely after 1945. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Thornhill.

Recenzje

"Jaspers has left us a rich and wide-ranging intellectual legacy encompassing psychiatry, intellectual history, and politics as well as philosophy." - Guy Bennett-Hunter, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Christopher Thornhill  Part 1: World History  1. The Axial Period   2. Schema of World History  3. Prehistory  4. The Ancient Historical Civilisations  5. The Axial Period and its Consequences  6. The Specific Quality of the West  7. Orient and Occident: The Eastern and the Western World  8. Once More: A Schema of History  Part 2: Present and Future  9. The Intrinsically New: Science and Technology  10. The Present Situation of the World  11. The Future  Part 3: The Meaning of History  12. Boundaries of History  13. Basic Structures of History  14. The Unity of History  15. Our Modern Historical Consciousness  16. Overcoming History.  Index

O autorze

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German-born psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original, interesting and yet neglected European thinkers of the twentieth century. Initially trained as a psychiatrist before taking up philosophy, his book General Psychopathology (1913) remains a classic in psychiatric literature. Never an adherent of any school or movement, his philosophy was shaped by his early encounters with Max Weber, whose family were close friends of Jaspers', and later Martin Heidegger, who had an important influence on Jaspers' own brand of existentialism. Jaspers' thought was also deeply marked by the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. As his wife was Jewish, he was dismissed from his chair as a professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1937 and his publications banned. At this time he was a tutor to Hannah Arendt, before she emigrated to the United States, and their ongoing philosophical exchanges after 1945 became a key feature of Jaspers' later work. Amongst his best-known works is The Question of German Guilt (1946), which examined the culpability of Germany as a whole in the atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich.