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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2014

Spalte:

916–918

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Fuchs, Thomas, Micali, Stefano, u. Boris Wandruszka [Hrsg.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Karl Jaspers – Phänomenologie und Psychopathologie.

Verlag:

Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber 2013. 256 S. = Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Anthropologie, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 1. Kart. EUR 35,00. ISBN 978-3-495-48574-3.

Rezensent:

Mads Gram Henriksen/Maja Zandersen

This important anthology gravitates on the work of the renowned German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969). Last year, Jaspers was greatly celebrated in the academic world in regard to the one hundred year anniversary of Allgemeine Psychopathologie (1913). Although this textbook figures among Jaspers’ early works (he was barely thirty when he wrote it), it is by many schol­ars considered his opus magnum. Here Jaspers founded psycho-pathology as a science in its own right and he introduced a new method (i. e. descriptive phenomenology), drawing on insights from especially Husserl and Dilthey, to describe, define, and classify abnormal psychic phenomena. Notwithstanding the outlook of a promising career in psychiatry, Jaspers decided to follow a ...


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