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Death, Deathlessness and Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
Filiz Peach
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Description for Death, Deathlessness and Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers' philosophy of existence, clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought. Num Pages: 224 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 484.
Karl Jaspers is one of the least understood and most neglected major philosophers of the twentieth century, and yet his ideas, particularly those concerned with death, have immense contemporary relevance. Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers' philosophy of existence, clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought. For Jaspers, a human being is not merely a physical entity but a being with a transcendent aspect and so, in some sense 'deathless'. Peach explores this transcendent aspect of humanity and what it is to be 'deathless' in Jaspersian terms. This book is ... Read more
Karl Jaspers is one of the least understood and most neglected major philosophers of the twentieth century, and yet his ideas, particularly those concerned with death, have immense contemporary relevance. Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers' philosophy of existence, clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought. For Jaspers, a human being is not merely a physical entity but a being with a transcendent aspect and so, in some sense 'deathless'. Peach explores this transcendent aspect of humanity and what it is to be 'deathless' in Jaspersian terms. This book is ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748625352
SKU
V9780748625352
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About Filiz Peach
Filiz Peach lectures in Philosophy at the Mary Ward Centre in London.
Reviews for Death, Deathlessness and Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
It is a merit of this book to show by many sophisticated and subtle arguments that Jaspers' idea of deathlessness must be interpreted outside of a religious framework. Another merit is the scrupulous explication of basic concepts of Jaspers' philosophy in an analytical style. This analytical approach to Jaspers recommends this book to philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition, and not ... Read more