Carmen Lea Dege

Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow , Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Carmen Lea Dege is a Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Israel. She is currently writing a book on the theory and practice of uncertainty.

Written by Carmen Lea Dege

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To Karl Jaspers, uncertainty is not to be overcome but understood

The existentialist Karl Jaspers believed uncertainty ungirds human existence: better to recognise this than rage against it

by Carmen Lea Dege