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Article: Karl Jaspers: A Biography--Navigations in Truth.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Suzanne Kirkbright, Karl Jaspers: A Biography--Navigations in Truth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). 360 pp. $35.
This full-length biography has a predecessor in the small but very rich and thoughtful Rowohlt monograph by Hans Saner, Karl Jaspers: in Selbstzeugnissen und Bildokumenten [Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1970]). Jaspers (1883-1969) was the first thinker to apply aspects of phenomenology to the field of psychiatry and psychology. There does not seem to be great interest in Jaspers' thought at the moment. Important exceptions in the area of phenomenological psychology are the University of Louisville philosopher, Osborne Wiggins, and some ...