Karl Jaspers
(1883-1969)
The desire to lead a philosophical life
springs from the darkness in which the individual finds himself,
from his sense of forlornness when he stares without love into the void,
from his self-forgetfulness when he feels that he is being consumed
by the busy-ness of the world,
when he suddenly wakes up in terror and asks himself:
What am I, what am I failing to do, what should I do?
Primary Sources:
Von der Wahrheit (1948)
Philosophy:
Vol 1: Philosophical World Orientation
Vol 2: Existential Elucidation
Vol 3: Metaphysics
Man in the Modern Age (1934)
The Origin and Goal of History
The European Spirit (1948)
General Psychopathology, Hoenig and Hamilton,, trans.
Part One: Individual Psychic Phenomena
Part Two: Meaningful Psychic Connections
Part Three: The Causal Connections of Psychic Life
Part Four: The Conception of the Psychic Life as a Whole
Part Five: The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History
Part Six: The Human Being as a Whole
The Nature of Psychotherapy (Excerpts from General Psychopathology)
Strindberg and van Gogh (1949)
The Future of Germany, E. Ashton, trans.
The Future of Mankind, E. Ashton, trans.
The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (1947)
Way to Wisdom
Nietzsche (1949)
Nietzsche and Christendom (1946)
Descartes and His Philosophy (1947)
Max Weber (1947)
Myth and Christianity: An Inquiry into the Possibility
of Religion without Myth (with Rudolph Bultmann) (1958)
Philosophical Faith and Revelation, E. Ashton, trans.