Actieprijs Freedom and Karl Jasper’s Philosophy – Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

As a founding father of Existentialism, Karl Jaspers has been seen as a twentieth-century successor to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard; as an exponent of reason, he has been seen as an heir of Kant. But studies tracing influences upon his thought or placing him in the context of Existentialism have not dealt with Jasper’s concern with the political realm and how we think in it and about it. In this study Elisabeth Young-Bruehl explicates Jasper’s practical philosophizing, his search for ways in which we can orien…