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Il concreto in Della verità di Karl Jaspers

My contribution deals with the question of what " concretness " means in the works of Karl Jaspers. I will give an overall introduction to On Truth, the book I will focus on, by locating it in Jaspers' biography and in the social and political context in which it was written (§ 1). Secondly, I will show how the concept of " concretness " in Jaspers is embedded in the more general framework of the relation between being-there (Dasein) and world (Welt) (§ 2). The last part of the essay (§ 3) claims for " concretness " to be one of the most important elements in Jaspers' philosophy, as it allows that men can " break through " (durchbrechen) and reach Transcend-ence.