Question of German Guilt

by Karl Jaspers

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823220699
• ISBN13: 9780823220694
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"