Death, 'Deathlessness' and Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
Filiz Peach
Abstract
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. This book provides an 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 is, in some sense ‘deathless’. The book explores this transcendent aspect of humanity and what it is to be ‘deathless’ in Jaspersian terms ... More
Keywords: Karl Jaspers, twentieth century, death, existence, deathless, philosophy, humanity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748625352 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625352.001.0001 |
