{"product_id":"the-origin-and-goal-of-history-routledge-classics-9780367679859","title":"The Origin and Goal of History Routledge Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Jaspers (1883â1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendtâs supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of Nazi persecution. He was removed from his position at the University of Heidelberg in 1937, due to his wife being Jewish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1949, the year in which the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin and Goal of History\u003c\/i\u003e is a vitally important book. It is renowned for Jaspers' theory of an 'Axial Age', running from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. Jaspers argues that this period witnessed a remarkable flowering of new ways of thinking that appeared in Persia, India, China and the Greco-Roman world, in striking parallel development but without any obvious direct cultural contact between them. Jaspers identifies key thinkers from this age, including Confucius, Buddha, Zarathustra, Homer and Plato, who had a profound influence on the trajectory of future philosophies and religions. For Jaspers, crucially, it is here that we see the flowering of diverse philosophical beliefs such as scepticism, materialism, sophism, nihilism, and debates about good and evil, which taken together demonstrate human beings' shared ability to engage with universal, humanistic questions as opposed to those mired in nationality or authoritarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a deeper level, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin and Goal of History\u003c\/i\u003e provides a crucial philosophical framework for the liberal renewal of German intellectual life after 1945, and indeed of European intellectual life more widely, as a shattered continent attempted to find answers to what had happened in the preceding years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Thornhill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Jaspers has left us a rich and wide-ranging intellectual legacy encompassing psychiatry, intellectual history, and politics as well as philosophy.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Guy Bennett-Hunter, Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword to the \u003cem\u003eRoutledge Classics\u003c\/em\u003e Edition \u003cem\u003eChristopher Thornhill \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: World History\u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Axial Period 2. Schema of World History 3. Prehistory 4. The Ancient Historical Civilisations 5. The Axial Period and its Consequences 6. The Specific Quality of the West 7. Orient and Occident: The Eastern and the Western World 8. Once More: A Schema of History \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Present and Future\u003c\/b\u003e 9. The Intrinsically New: Science and Technology 10. The Present Situation of the World 11. The Future \u003cb\u003ePart 3: The Meaning of History\u003c\/b\u003e 12. Boundaries of History 13. Basic Structures of History 14. The Unity of History 15. Our Modern Historical Consciousness 16. Overcoming History. \u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018014294359,"sku":"9780367679859","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367679859.jpg?v=1750775367","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origin-and-goal-of-history-routledge-classics-9780367679859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}