Reason and Existenz
Subtitle: five lectures
By: by Karl Jaspers ; translated with an introduction by William Earle ; afterword by Pol Vandevelde.
Series: Marquette studies in philosophy ;; no. 11; Marquette studies in philosophy ;; #11
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.; Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.; Reason.; Existentialism.
Description: With the publication of Reason and Existenz, originally delivered as a series of five lectures at the University of Groningen in 1935, one of the most important of Jaspers's philosophic works is made available to the English-speaking world. It concerns itself with a general statement of the principal philosophic categories which have given uniqueness to Jaspers's thinking: existence, freedom, and history, and the limit-situations of death, suffering, and sin.

Written shortly after Jaspers's major systematic work and before his analysis of the problem of truth, Reason and Existenz occupies a primary position in the development of his thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-181).