Reason and Existenz: Five Lectures

Reason and Five Lectures by Karl Jaspers. Published by The Noonday Press, New York, in 1955. First American edition, first printing. Translated with an Introduction by William Earle. Important early work by Jaspers originally published in German in 1935 as Vernunft und Existenz. "With the publication of Reason and Existenz, originally delivered as a series of five lectures at the University of Groningen in 1935, one of the most important of Jaspers's philosophic works is made available to the English-speaking world. It concerns itself with a general statement of the principal philosophic categories which have given uniqueness to Jaspers's existence, freedom, and history, and the limit-situations of death, suffering, and sin. Written shortly after Jaspers's major systematic work and before his analysis of the problem of truth, Reason and Existenz occupies a primary position in the development of his thought."