Death, 'Deathlessness' and Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy (English, Filiz Page)

Product description Review Select Guide Rating From the Inside Flap Peach applies the rigour of ordinary language analysis with Socratic questioning to Jaspers s metaphysics and thinking about death and the experience of deathlessness .Gregory J. Walters, Professor of Philosophy, Université Saint-Paul/Saint Paul University, Ottawa, CanadaKarl Jaspers is one of the least understood and most neglected major philosophers of the twentieth century, and yet his ideas, particularly those concerned with death, have immense contemporary relevance.Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers philosophy of existence, clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought. For Jaspers, a human being is not merely a physical entity but a being with a transcendent aspect and so, in some sense deathless . Peach explores this transcendent aspect of humanity and what it is to be 'deathless' in Jaspersian terms.This book is a major contribution to the scarce literature on Jaspers and will be valuable to student and academic alike. From the Back Cover ‘Peach applies the rigour of ordinary language analysis with Socratic questioning to Jaspers’s metaphysics and thinking about death and the experience of ‘deathlessness’.Gregory J. Walters, Professor of Philosophy, Université Saint-Paul/Saint Paul University, Ottawa, CanadaKarl Jaspers is one of the least understood and most neglected major philosophers of the twentieth century, and yet his ideas, particularly those concerned with death, have immense contemporary relevance.Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers’ philosophy of existence, clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought. For Jaspers, a human being is not merely a physical entity but a being with a transcendent aspect and so, in some sense ‘deathless’. Peach explores this transcendent aspect of humanity and what it is to be 'deathless' in Jaspersian terms.This book is a major contribution to the scarce literature on Jaspers and will be valuable to student and academic alike. About the Author Filiz Peach lectures in Philosophy at the Mary Ward Centre in London.Filiz Peach is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Mary Ward Centre, London Read more