The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers

Hans Joas, Matthias Bormuth

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Anthem Press
11 February 2025

Society & culture: general

Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology

This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers's philosophy for the social sciences.

It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers's thinking by renowned authors Talcott Parsons and Jrgen Habermas. Several chapters are devoted to the relationship between Jaspers and his teacher (Max Weber), his famous student (Hannah Arendt) and crucial figures in his intellectual world (Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Simmel). Others deal with his relevance for disciplines from psychiatry to the study of religion and the historico-sociological research about the Axial Age, a term coined by Jaspers. In his introduction, editor Hans Joas tries to systematise Jaspers's relevance for the contemporary social sciences and to explain why Parsons had called him a 'social scientist's philosopher'.

The book promises to become an indispensable source in the re-evaluation of Jaspers's thinking in the years to come.

Edited by: Hans Joas, Matthias Bormuth
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781839992865
ISBN 10: 1839992867
Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Hans Joas is the Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Matthias Bormuth is Professor for Comparative Intellectual History at the University of Oldenburg and is also the Director of the Karl Jaspers Haus.