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The Question of German Guilt (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Question of German Guilt (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at
Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the
consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. “Are the German
people guilty?” These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding
European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German
intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity
and morality in a disordered world. Jaspers, a life-long liberal,
attempted in this book to discuss rationally a problem that had
thus far evoked only heat and fury. Neither an evasive apology nor
a wholesome condemnation, his book distinguished between types of
guilt and degrees of responsibility. He listed four categories of
guilt: criminal guilt (the commitment of overt acts), political
guilt (the degree of political acquiescence in the Nazi regime),
moral guilt (a matter of private judgment among one’s friends),
and metaphysical guilt (a universally shared responsibility of
those who chose to remain alive rather than die in protest against
Nazi atrocities). Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) took his degree in
medicine but soon became interested in psychiatry. He is the author
of a standard work of psychopathology, as well as special studies
on Strindberg, Van Gogh and Nietsche. After World War I he became
Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg, where he achieved fame as a
brilliant teacher and an early exponent of existentialism. He was
among the first to acquaint German readers with the works of
Kierkegaard. Jaspers had to resign from his post in 1935. From the
total isolation into which the Hitler regime forced him, Jaspers
returned in 1945 to a position of central intellectual leadership
of the younger liberal elements of Germany. In his first lecture in
1945, he forcefully reminded his audience of the fate of the German
Jews. Jaspers’s unblemished record as an anti-Nazi, as well as
his sentient mind, have made him a rallying point center for those
of his compatriots who wish to reconstruct a free and democratic
Germany.
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