Origin and Goal of History
Origin and Goal of History Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. He was Hannah Arendt's…
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Origin and Goal of History
Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. He was Hannah Arendt's supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of Nazi persecution. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy.
It is renowned for Jaspers' theory of an 'Axial Age', running from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. He was removed from his position at the University of Heidelberg in 1937, due to his wife being Jewish.Published in 1949, the year in which the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, The Origin and Goal of History is a vitally important book. Jaspers argues that this period witnessed a remarkable flowering of new ways of thinking that appeared in Persia,
Origin and Goal of History