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THE FUTURE OF MANKIND (342 pp.) -Karl Jaspers-University of Chicago ($5.95).
"Not famine, not pestilence, not war will bring back seriousness," Kierkegaard once said. "It is not till the eternal punishments of hell regain their reality that man will turn serious." German Philosopher Karl Jaspers feels that there is a fairly vivid equivalent of the horrors of hell in the threatened...
Short Circuit. One point on which the Socialists are clearly determined to do better was the emotion-charged issue of reunification of East and West Germany. Fortnight ago, Germany's most eminent living philosopher, craggy Professor Karl Jaspers, 77, who now teaches at Switzerland's Basel University, flatly...
Though many Germans are deeply conscious of war guilt (see below) and few are foolish enough to think reunification an immediate possibility, no German politician is prepared to admit that it is not a just and necessary goal. But in the hue and cry against Jaspers, no one outdid the...
Last month Paul Tillich, 72, received a special kind of present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic...