The friendship between Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers developed after World War I, but became strained over the intrusion of Nazism into intellectual life. These essays provide insight into the cultural, religious, and political crises facing the two philosophers and elucidate the perennial question about the moral responsibility of intellectuals. Of particular interest is an essay by Paul Tillich, published here for the first time. Alan M. Olson is Professor of Religion and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
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Collected here are 11 essays by American and European philosophers comparing and contrasting the philosophical thinking of Heidegger and Jaspers--as well as their thinking about and attitudes toward each other--over the entire course of their friendship and eventual estrangement. The essays are all recent, with the single exception of an incisive lecture by Paul Tillich, written in 1954, that was previously unpublished. All but the latter have benefited from the recent publication in Germany of more than 150 letters exchanged between the two men. Written primarily for fellow philosophers, the essays deal with the relationship between philosophy and politics, the moral responsibility of scholars, and the questions of value, shame, guilt, and freedom, among many other issues. For appropriate subject collections.
- Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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An Unsavory Melange,
By Erik Duncan (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heidegger & Jaspers (Hardcover)
One could compose a collection about Heidegger and Jaspers that was solely focused on comparative readings. This wouldn't be very difficult; many inspired essays have been written comparing the two. Or, alternatively, one could compose a book of essays detailing Heidegger and Jaspers' personal affinities towards, and skirmishes with, one another. An interesting conflict surely lies in this; Heiddeger was pro-nazism and Jaspers was decidely not - like a 1930's German odd couple, only where biological tidiness is at issue. Either would be well worth reading.
Unfortunately, this book tries to traverse the boundary that lies between the philosophical systems these two espoused, and their own personal lives in a way that only the most sinister self-posturing biographer could conceive of. While some essays trace the contextualized line of the inter-personal relations of the two with a steady, biographical inclination, others are more apt toward a confoundingly acute, over-intellectualized reading that was almost certainly written for an academic journal. The conjuction creates a sloppy hodge-podge of writings that are only related by the pretense of the book: they use the words "Heiddeger" and "Jaspers" quite often.
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