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Karl Jaspers, 1883 - 1969. Jaspers was a German philosopher, one of the most important Existentialists in Germany, who approached the subject from man's direct concern with his own existence. In his later work, as a reaction to the disruptions of Nazi rule in Germany and World War II, Jaspers searched for a new unity of thinking that he called world philosophy.
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existentialism and Karl Jaspersdied Feb. 26, 1969, Basel, Switzerland
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Karl Jaspers, 1883-1969. Jaspers, a German philosopher, one of the originators of existentialism, whose work influenced modern theology and psychiatry as well as philosophy. Born in Oldenburg, Jaspers taught psychiatry and philosophy at Heidelberg University. During most of the Nazi period in the 1930s and 1940s, Jaspers was prevented from teaching. In 1948 he accepted a professorship in philosophy in Basel, Switzerland. |
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