For 10 points, name this philosopher who taught Hans-Georg Gadamer and wrote The Philosophy of Existence.
This man attempted to analyze the relationship between insanity and artistic creativity in his work Strindberg and Van Gogh: An Attempt of a Pathographic Analysis with Reference to Parallel Cases of Swedenborg and Holderlin. In one of this thinker's works, he coined a term to refer to a period of similar thought emerging simultaneously in China, India, and the west. That term is the "axial age," and it appears in his work The Origin and Purpose of History. Also the author of an attempted catalogue of ways of examining philosophy, his Psychology of Worldviews, in his most famous work, he stressed the importance of achieving what he termed "The encompassing," which exists alongside transcendence. For 10 points, name this philosopher who taught Hans-Georg Gadamer and wrote The Philosophy of Existence.
This man attempted to analyze the relationship between insanity and artistic creativity in his work Strindberg and Van Gogh:
Karl {Jaspers}