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- Interdisciplinary study between psychiatry, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies
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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 89)
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We read, but we are also read by others. Interferences of these readings. Forcing someone to read himself as he is read (slavehood). Forcing the others to read me as I read myself (conquest). 1 Simone Weil Karl Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883, grew up in a liberal-minded banker’s family, studied medicine and was granted a chair in philosophy at the Uni- 2 versity of Heidelberg in 1922. The decisive factor in this appointment was Jaspers’ 1919 monograph Psychology of World Views (Psychologie der Weltanschauungen), 3 which founded so-called ‘existence philosophy’. What is less known is that in 1913 Jaspers had already published an epoch-making methodological systematics, his General Psychopathology (Allgemeine Psychopathologie), which had established 4 him as an authority in the field of psychiatry in the German-speaking world. As a result of this as well as the fact that Jaspers addressed questions concerning physi- 5 sicians’ self-identity, Jaspers is now celebrated as one of the “classic figures of 6 medicine”. 1 Weil (1990), pg. 134. 2 Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) worked as a psychiatrist in Heidelberg starting in 1909, and from 1914 on he held a position as a Privatdozent for psychology in the Department of Philosophy after having completed his Habilitation. In 1920 he was granted an assistant professorship and in 1922 a chair in this department. In 1937 he was forced to retire because his wife was Jewish. In 1945 he was reinstated.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Conduct in Modern Times
Book Subtitle: Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis
Authors: Matthias Bormuth
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4765-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4764-0Published: 27 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7188-0Published: 10 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4765-7Published: 16 July 2006
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 168
Additional Information: Original German edition published by Frommann-Holzboog, 2002
Topics: Ethics