Life Conduct in Modern Times: Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis

by Matthias Bormuth

We read, but we are also read by others. Interferences of these readings. Forcing someone to read himself as he is read (slavehood). Forcing the others to read me as I read myself (conquest). 1 Simone Weil Karl Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883, grew up in a liberal-minded banker's family, studied medicine and was granted a chair in philosophy at the Uni- 2 versity of Heidelberg in 1922. The decisive factor in this appointment was Jaspers' 1919...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402047649
• ISBN13: 9781402047640
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"