Karl Jaspers: Physician, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Thinker

Intro -- Preface -- List of Sigles (Letters Concern the German Editions) -- Contents -- 1: Stages of an Arduous but Happy Life -- 1.1 Early Imprints in the Parental Home, Childhood and Adolescence -- 1.2 Serious Cuts in the Life Course -- 1.2.1 The Incurable Disease -- 1.2.2 The Unconditionality and Happiness of the Marital Relationship -- 1.3 Period of Study, Dissertation and Academic Career -- 1.4 From Psychiatry Via Psychology to Existential Philosophy -- 1.5 The Shock of the Nazi Dictatorship -- 1.6 From Existential Philosophy to the Philosophy of Reason and Politics -- 1.7 Appealing Teaching as a Lifelong Challenge -- 2: Encounter with Two Controversial Thinkers: Max Weber and Martin Heidegger -- 2.1 The Formative Encounter with Max Weber -- 2.2 The Ambivalent Relationship to Martin Heidegger -- 3: What Is the Meaning of Being Human? -- 3.1 The Human Being and the Antinomian Basic Structure of Existence -- 3.2 The Human Being as Empirical Ego or Objectifiable Existence -- 3.3 Foundering as a Positive Impulse for Self-Realization -- 3.3.1 Self-Realization by Overcoming Borderline Situations (Death, Suffering, Guilt, Struggle for Life) -- 3.3.2 Self-Realization in Interpersonal Communication -- 3.4 The Human Being in Relation to the Encompassing, Transcendent Being -- 3.5 Being Human Through Reason -- 4: Liberal Ethos of Humanity, Science and Education -- 4.1 Was Jaspers a Moralist of the Twentieth Century? -- 4.2 On the Appellative-Ethical Intention of Philosophizing -- 4.3 Are Humane Value Positions Irrational from Jaspers' Point of View? -- 4.4 Humane Values of the Liberal Ethos of Humanity -- 4.4.1 Humane Values in Coping with Borderline Situations -- 4.4.2 Humane Values for the Success of Interpersonal Communication -- 4.4.3 Humane Values in the Context of Reason -- 4.4.4 Humane Values for Political Action.