A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. 1883–1969. Born in Oldenburg in Germany, he worked mainly at Heidelberg and Basel. He was a leading EXISTENTIALIST philosopher, whose work was much influenced by his early training in medicine and psychiatry, and has greater connexions with contemporary social and political problems than does that of HEIDEGGER. He treats human existence in terms of various notions, including Dasein, which he uses in a sense different from Heidegger’s sense. Philosophie, 1932.
Vernunft und Existenz, 1935 (5 lectures). Existenzphilosophie, 1938 (3 lectures). Die Schuldfrage, 1946 (on German war guilt). Von der Wahrheit, 1947. Vernunft und Widervernunft in unserer Zeit, 1950 (3 lectures). See also MARCEL.
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