The Question of German Guilt
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...
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Jaspers (1883-1969) was a professor of philosophy at Heidelberg, specializing in psychiatry after World War I, and returned from forced isolation during the Nazi era as a leader of young, liberal intellectuals. His 1947 Die Schuldfrage was translated and published in English by Doubleday the next year. A new introduction is contributed by Joseph W. Koterski (Fordham U.), a Jesuit. There is no index or bibliography. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction to the 2000 Editionvii"Ladies and Gentlemen"1Introduction21Scheme of Distinctions25The German Questions41Differentiation of German Guilt55Possible Excuses76Our Purification96
