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 orient
ourselves toward our world and its political questions. Political
freedom and freedom for philosophizing, for critical thinking, were
of a piece for Jaspers, and Young-Bruehl makes the dynamic unity of
these two freedoms the subject of her book. What was important for
Jaspers was not a systematic set of philosophical concepts but the
activity of philosophizing, a mode of thinking that could
illuminate the origins and implications of such unprecedented
phenomena as nuclear weapons and totalitarian regimes. Young-Bruehl
shows how Jaspers aimed at responsibility to the diversity of the
world and attempted to formulate criteria for judgment conducive to
responsible thought and action.
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