
Way to Wisdom
An Introduction to Philosophy
Karl Jaspers(Author)
Yale University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 11. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-300-09735-1 (ISBN)
Description
One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. In Jaspers' view, the source of philosophy is to be found "in wonder, in doubt, in a sense of forsakenness," and the philosophical quest is a process of continual change and self-discovery. In a new foreword to this edition, Richard M. Owsley provides a brief overview of Jaspers' life and achievement.
"An eloquent expression of a great hope that philosophy may again become an activity really relevant not only to the perennial problems of life and death but to the unusual configurations of such problems in our time."-Julian N. Hartt, Yale Review
"Original, sincere, cultivated, and stimulating."-Philosophy
"An eloquent expression of a great hope that philosophy may again become an activity really relevant not only to the perennial problems of life and death but to the unusual configurations of such problems in our time."-Julian N. Hartt, Yale Review
"Original, sincere, cultivated, and stimulating."-Philosophy
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09735-1 (9780300097351)
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Previous edition
Karl Jaspers
Way to Wisdom
Book
09/1960
2nd Edition
Yale University Press
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Persons
German philosopher, physician, and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers was born in 1883 and died in 1969. The great translator Ralph Manheim rendered in English such twentieth-century classics as Guenter Grass' The Tin Drum and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. Richard M. Owsley, professor of philosophy at North Texas University, is president of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America.