Being Is Doing With

Freedom and Existence in Jeanne Hersch

by Piergiacomo Severini

Book cover: Being Is Doing With

Extent: 260 pages

Publisher: Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Philosophy

Series: Forschungen zu Karl Jaspers und zur Existenzphilosophie

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2022)

ISBN: 9783796546495

Price: $65.00

In stock

This book aims at introducing Jeanne Hersch, holding together her biography and her philosophy and showing in which sense her whole path can be seen as a continuous endeavour to guarantee better conditions for the exercise of freedom to more and more people. Thanks to the investigation of Hersch’s reflection on freedom throughout all her life, the reader should gain a tool to orient in the heterogeneous Herschian path. In addition, reconstructing the evolution of Hersch’s reflection on freedom also highlights the coherence among her varied engagements and texts, shedding new light on some of her minor contributions, which are still quite unknown. Thus, Jeanne Hersch’s philosophy turns out to be a consistent contribution to existentialism and contemporary issues.

  • By (author) Piergiacomo Severini