- Gebundene Ausgabe: 380 Seiten
- Verlag: Saunders College Publishing/Harcourt Brace; Auflage: 1 (Februar 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0151369437
- ISBN-13: 978-0151369430
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,2 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.508.939 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Following volume 3, this tome finishes Jaspers' global survey of philosophers; it conveys an unfinished quality due to its being posthumously assembled from his papers. Some of these taciturn jottings resemble lecture notes, but even they display Jaspers' strength as a philosophy teacher, which he was for 60 years in Germany and Switzerland. Here, he only sketchily presents the thought of Weber, Einstein, and Marx, but robustly engages Descartes, Pascal, Lessing, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard--the latter with "some trepidation"--for Jaspers wonders whether the big K can be taught at all, an existential problem bound to beset a teacher with self-doubt. Yet he bravely forges ahead on Kierkegaard, the longest section of this work, with a biographical profile, summary of works, and analysis of his thought, a format Jaspers applies to each philosopher. He denominates this group collectively as "The Great Awakeners" : they separated man from Christian revelation and salvation and compelled him to face the abyss of his isolation. For these original if chilling thinkers, as for the greats in his prior books, Jaspers was the premier expositor of the century to college students. Larger libraries should see some steady, though not heavy, use of this title over the years. Gilbert Taylor
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Rigorous yet readable notes, sketches, and articles that round out a four-volume panorama of the philosophical pantheon. The eminent existential philosopher Jaspers (18831969) died before he could complete this work. Editors Ermarth and Ehrlich have, however, been able to stitch together a coherent book that, in accordance with Jaspers's plan, primarily covers the philosophers whom he termed ``the disturbers'': thinkers for whom doubt and despair loomed large. Jaspers opens with a discussion of Descartes. A disturber in the probing style of his thought, he stands apart, however, insofar as he compartmentalized issues of faith and philosophy. The other disturbers Jaspers characterizes as ``great awakeners.'' Working the boundaries between philosophy and theology, they sought to think man back to some sense of completeness. These include Pascal, whose famous wager for the existence of God Jaspers critiques at some length; Kierkegaard, the great philosopher of faith, over whom Jaspers lingers longest; and Nietzsche, discussed briefly in part as a counterpoint to Kierkegaard. Interestingly, Jaspers includes a chapter on the 18th- century theoretician and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, declaring his work to be exemplary for its critical discernment. In a short section on ``philosophers in other realms,'' such as the sciences, Jaspers discusses the philosophical import and the (in his view) severe limits of Einstein's thought. Max Weber, in contrast, elicits unstinting praise. The book closes with an appreciation of Marx that subsumes a harsh critique of the Marxist style of disputation. Jaspers makes information about philosophers' lives and the dissemination of their works integral to his accounts of their ideas. Thus a sense of history and of human contingency pervade these pieces. Twenty-five years after its author's death, this is by no means a cutting-edge work--but this great thinker's ruminations on his predecessors have a timeless quality to them. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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What a magnificient analysis full of profound and original insights.This book was done with such exemplary clarity that one need not be a student of philosophy in order to comprehend the ideas that are discussed.I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in discovering the important pathway into the lives and thoughts of the great minds.
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What a magnificient analysis full of profound and original insights.This book was done with such exemplary clarity that one need not be a student of philosophy in order to comprehend the ideas that are discussed.I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in discovering the important pathway into the lives and thoughts of the great minds.
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