Medizin und Philosophie: Den Menschen in den Mittelpunkt stellen

Published in 1913, 'Allgemeine Psychopathologie' is Karl Jaspers' seminal work aimed at bringing order to the chaos of abnormal psychic phenomena through systematic description, definition, and classification. The book is a foundational text in psychiatry, emphasizing a phenomenological approach to understanding and assessing abnormal human subjectivity. It remains influential in current psychiatric debates and continues to be a stimulus for further research and discussion in the field[4][5].

The Logische Untersuchungen, published in two volumes in 1900 and 1901, is a seminal work by Edmund Husserl. The first volume, 'Prolegomena to Pure Logic,' critiques the psychologistic interpretation of logic prevalent at the time and defends logic as a pure, a priori science. The second volume, 'Investigations in Phenomenology and the Theory of Knowledge,' delves into detailed analyses of consciousness, presentations, and judgments, setting the foundation for the discipline of phenomenology. Husserl's work had a significant impact on the development of philosophy, influencing thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre[1][5].

In this book, Plessner develops a philosophical biology and anthropology, conceptualizing human living in relation to plant and animal life. He introduces the concept of the 'eccentric position' of humans, highlighting that humans both have and are a body, and are naturally-artificial beings within living nature. The work challenges traditional mind-body dualism and provides a hermeneutics of nature, emphasizing the expressive and sentient aspects of life.