Jaspers’ views on communication and his approach to the question of listening, both underwent an evolution in which World War II and the first years thereafter played a crucial role. In this process, Jaspers journeyed from listening to the great minds of the past, through an inward dialogue with them, to one-sided lecturing while his audience was engaged in a straight-line listening, to an intimate dialogue with those he considered like-minded, to a multi-faceted dialogue, and finallyto listening to his contemporaries and learning how to practice transactional listening-in-conversation in the process of a multi-layered communication he called a loving struggle. This evolution, paralleled by the transition of Japers’ philosophy from local-centered to world-centered makes his thinking attractive and useful today.
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Górniak-Kocikowska, K. (2012). The factor of listening in Karl Jaspers’philosophy of communication. In Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity (pp. 419–434). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2223-1_34
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