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Article: Die Sprache in der Philosophie von karl Jaspers.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 1999
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Die Sprache in der Philosophie von Karl Jaspers. By DONATELLA DI CESARE. Tubingen and Basel: Francke. 1996. 106 pp. DM 39.80.
The aim to understand the role of language in Karl Jaspers's thought is an ambitious undertaking. Jaspers warned about treating his work as a source of what he called 'asthetischer Genuss' (Philosophie, p. xxii). In Jaspers's view, to accept poetic values was sheer folly. He thought that too much emphasis on the metaphorical diverts the mind from the discipline of thinking. Donatella Di Cesare's monograph on what she calls Jaspers's 'philosophy of communication' (p. 12) attempts to represent language as the central theme of his philosophy. ...
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